Runpod interview questions

It starts out pleasant enough with the recruiter phone screen. From there, you're funneled along through the usual dozen and a half interviews which have become de rigeur for tech jobs these days. Over the course of the interviews it became rather clear that they were fishing for a unicorn who would be willing to work 60 hour weeks for 40 hours of mid-level SysAdmin pay while juggling ownership of five or six different areas of IT operations - essentially architecting an entire IT department from scratch. In this economy, I'm sure they'll find their unicorn, but I find it a rather disingenuous process when listings are misleading like this - peddling expectations soft externally while hoping for a unicorn internally, a unicorn who will happily juggle 4-5 jobs above their pay grade for the pay of one far below their pay grade.

Stage one with TA, recruiter skipped because they couldn’t find 15-30 minutes to meet with me. Fast tracked me to next stage, meeting hiring manager. Hiring manager shows up, a software engineer through and through and starts grilling me with unrelated technical questions for 30 minutes. No heads up this is going to be a technical interview. Has zero people skills, pays no interest in my background or me as a person. Asks me to explain the difference between a left, right and inner join in SQL queries. They are basically trying to hire a full stack software engineer who can speak to people for between 70-120K. This was one of the least professional interviews I’ve ever experienced and there’s clear confusion on the difference between a Sales Engineer and a Software Engineer.