After a phone screen, I went to their headquarters for an interview with HR. The office is, like many others, a big building outside of Madrid, hard to reach commuting, with a lot of desks crammed together in an open space.
The interviewer asked a lot of in-depth questions about my resume, even though she clearly didn't have the technical knowledge to judge a candidate. I understand that being able to communicate with a non-technical person can be important, but still a bit weird -specially knowing what happened next.
Then we moved on to the "psychological" part of the interview, with questions about personality, the kind of people I like/dislike working with and the like. After about 45 minutes, she told me straight that I didn't have the required technical experience in a particular field she had never even asked about, but was written in my resume. When I pointed that out that , she made some half-hearted sentence about passing my application to a technical manager. I suggested that perhaps there were other positions in IT that were more appropriate for me if she felt that I lacked experience in that particular area (even though I had three years of experience in it, as stated in the job offer), but she said that there were no openings for 'junior' engineers. Which is a) obviously false, since Paradigma is constantly posting job offers for all kinds of profiles, and b) a tad offensive for someone with several years of working experience.
Obviously, I never heard of them again, even though she promised to contact me in the following days after talking to a tech manager. I guess they didn't like me but they didn't have the courage to explain why.
