Remote Senior Backend Engineer interview questions

Very long and drawn out, it took weeks. Two soft interviews one with a recruiter, one with an engineering manager, and then what I thought was going to be a technical interview The soft interviews were what you expect, just an informal ~40 min conversation getting to know the other person a little better. These went extremely well. The supposed technical interview was were things went wrong. In business there is a saying that A people hire A people, and B people hire C people. They sent their B people to the interview and I could tell because they were confused by a lot of basic concepts in server side engineering and didn't seem like they had ever really conducted a technical interview before. I don't feel bad about not getting an offer if anything I feel great about not having to work with these people and waste a lot of time teaching them basic stuff like how to not put your cache in memory on your node so that you don't have reliability or performance problems that negatively impact your user experience every time you deploy. I really wish the the company the best of luck and hope that there are people in the organization making good technical decisions for the benefit of the company.

1. applied online 2. zoom call with an internal tech recruiter 3. zoom call with the hiring manager 4. at-home code exercise 5. zoom call with potential future colleagues 6. offer