Zignal Labs interview questions

I was contacted by a recruiter and offered an interview at Zignal. Talking with him was great, and then I was interviewed by a manager. This is where it started to get a bit odd, and I was surprised that the manager had no tech experience outside of Zignal. All he asked was information on my past experience, and then he asked for a lot of advice on how to manage an elasticsearch cluster. It started to feel like he was looking for a free consultant as he didn't seem to know the answer to any of the questions he was asking me. I gave him advice on how to manage and scale it, and at the end of the call he made it very clear that I was not going to be offered another round. It was extremely unprofessional and made me feel like I had wasted my time. I'm not confident that there even is an available position open, as I answered all of his questions perfectly and was never put through a real technical interview. I'm an expert on Elasticsearch (their backend) and have been working in Devops for over a decade, so I have a hard time believing that they'll find someone more experienced than I am. I've also managed Elastic at a much larger scale than they're working with and I was a bit surprised how many problems they're having with it when their cluster is relatively small. Managing a cluster of that size should be very easy.

I applied online, recruiter call, hiring manager call, and in-person interview. For the most part, it was well coordinated and the recruiter was on top of things until it came for feedback after the onsite. I found the people interviewing me not well prepared with questions and structure to the interviews. On the day of the interview, the hiring manager was sick, it happens but he let the team decide and I never had a chance to meet him in person. When I spoke to the head of sales, he was very focused on what this person can do for him rather than thinking of it as a collaborative relationship between sales and marketing. I'm sure when I pushed back on that it didn't sit well with him. After a week went by since my onsite I reached out to the recruiter to get a response a few hours later that they are moving ahead with other candidates with experience in the industry and blah blah. First, the response seemed canned and not specific to me. Second, I had to ask for it, and the feedback was obviously in the system, so why not follow up and be professional? Third, over a month later the role is still open, so not only was the response canned but it wasn't even true. This company has some things to figure out in terms of product, execution and target market of who they are selling into. The team is very new and hopefully, they show traction.