Was headhunted on hired. Got an initial call with the hiring guy who told me about the interview process, which was the initial call we had, then a technical interview with a pair programming aspect then a culture fit. Had the initial call where we spoke about my experience and what I was looking for next Then the technical interview with Q&A for the first half and then pair programming After this round I was told that I did well on the pair programming part but that my Q&A wasn't strong enough and thus they would have to reduced the salary offer which was weird to me seeing as a coder we don't do Q&A all do we code but I said alright and they put me into the next round which was the cultural fit. The cultural fit was fine and I answered all the questions that were asked and seemed to get positive feedback but somehow was told I didn't get the job later on because they offered it someone who has more experience with the types of projects they usually work on. If this is the case then why didn't they tell me this before I got all the way through to the cultural interview? They probably filled the role internally and just wanted to waste someone's time just to show the government that they posted the role externally.