Vortexa Senior DevOps Engineer interview questions

I was introduced to the company by a recruiting agency. My CV was sent over. After 2-3 days a 30m telephone session was scheduled. After the initial screening I was invited for a 2-3 hour session on site. The interview is split into 2 to 3 sessions: - Session/ Questions with the CTO, talk about past, future, some generic tech questions + a riddle. - Session with the HR / People manager, discussion about company values, work hours, way of working, the way this startup is set up etc. Question about previous experience, etc. - Technical session with the team lead + one more engineer. While the first 2 sessions where very reasonable, and you have the chance to actually ask some solid questions and get answers, also the answers were very open, for example about the long working hours, the state of the company the future. The engineer sessions was very weird. I felt that it did not have a structure at all and the interview was about, some times validating the strong beliefs of the engineer based on his previous experience with other candidates or his own opinions. The process was not very hard as such it was mostly about, opinions and different ways approaching the process, but it was not a very good sign around the engineering culture (maybe that was the case). Definitely if this kind of mentality is like imposed from the interview - does not make you very positive about the future. I think it would really help if they on the technical session - really try to assess the candidate and not turn the interview to a contest. It was kind of obvious from the way the discussion was organically expanding, in some cases it felt that that questions were like being made up on the spot. The company is really interesting and I guess more people would be eager to give it a go, but they need to work a bit on their interview process, definitely there is a lot of passion and strong opinions but when you want to onboard new members you generally want to positively influence and not grill them in cases.