Firstup interview questions

HR's fast response to application explained entire process: 1. Screener (identity verification, salary expectations check) 2. Tech test #1 (data structures and algorithms) 3. Tech test #2 (systems design and architecture) 4. Line manager interview 5. Department manager interview 6. Offer

Their recruiter contacted me out of the blue and seemed surprised that I wanted to be paid market rates. Seemed like yet another American company with contempt for the engineering talent based abroad - raising the question of why they'd bother head-hunting someone in the UK in the first place. During the interview I was mostly asked DevOps questions by someone who was clearly not technical enough to understand what she was asking. This was particularly bizarre as up until that point I was under the impression that this was more of a backend/full stack position - I don't know why there was such an emphasis on infrastructure. After the interview it dawned on me that this literal HR-tech company might have had an ulterior motive for interviewing so I made a GDPR request (specifically, a deletion request). They never got back to me. Plan to raise this with the ICO as tricking people into attending interviews so that you can feed their data into some AI you're building sounds like a crime to me (if indeed, that is what they're doing). Given the CEO's work history, I probably should have seen something like this coming.