The head of recruiting reached out to me because he had received my resume from a friend. He said my background was perfect and set up an interview with the head of HR. We met a week later and discussed the position, salary and benefits. She described the position to me and said there were 4 spots. 1 had been filled internally and they were making an offer that week to another. The technical position was remote and would be working with POS developers to implement the new PayPal pay-by-phone product. She set up my next interview for the following week with the bead of the program. She also stated she would be in touch with me at all times. She was very congenial and easy to talk to. Interview #1: Highly technical. I also felt he knew much more about me and my background than what was on my resume. I had to describe debit key injection, End to End Encryption architecture as well as its purpose. I was also asked if I'd ever worked with BASE-24 and Canadian switches. In addition to these, I had to give an in-depth architectural overview of my former software portfolio. I answered all of these correctly and at the end he told me I was too technical but he wanted to speak with another colleague. Before we hung up be asked if I had ever worked on Tier 1 retail implementations and to describe their pain points in 60 seconds. I did and he agreed with what I brought up. Head of HR checked in later that day and said thing must have gone well and she set up my next interview. Interview #2: this went only 15 min. He focused on End to End Encryption. I asked if I should view this project as ecommerce moving to brick & mortar and he said yes. I followed up with HR a never heard back. I do know who was getting the offer letter they mentioned. This explains why I was "too technical."