I had an interview last week. This role is flickering around for quite some time. I was approached by their HR from India called Praveen. First round was telephonic with local lead. I'm sorry to tell this, being a lead in my current company, looking at the interviewer questions, I didn't understand what the interviewer is upto and if the lady is strong enough with her technical skills. I have an expectation on this round and I didn't feel it was something so difficult. Anyway, I don't want to pin point every thing. I did not feel the expertise from the interviewer. I heard this job is in the market quite some time and they aren't sure whom to hire. They just waste candidates time. I was not even asked a pure tech question. It is an utter waste of my time for me.

I had 5 interviews over the course of about 1.5 months. One with HR, then hiring manager, two technicals, and one with the director. At the end I was told my linux skills were not sufficient. If that's the case then why move me on to the final round of interview with the Director? Regarding the final interview, this person was 10 mins late, and very rude. They showed clear frustration and anger that they had to interview me, despite already meeting with the hiring manager. Drilled me like it was another technical, then at the end while I was thanking this person, they just got up and started leaving the room while I was still talking and didn't care. Complete waste of my time. This whole process left a bad impression. Even after getting rejected the HR person told that the team thinks I would be a great fit for a Technical Support Engineer position. That position is almost purely linux, you have to know the in's and out's of that. Nothing made sense to me at all.