After a 30m screening call with the recruiter who said no experience with XR or React was necessary, I was set up with a 2nd interview with the team, where they asked a ton of questions giving me almost no opportunity to ask questions about their stack, number of projects, how work is divided up, etc. until time was almost up. Most of the devs have <=3y of experience and one wanted to know how I would architect their XR efforts. They're currently using a 3rd party framework. And their marketing site is built in Wordpress. Having spent the weekend learning React and building a site I demo'd for them, I didn't have vast knowledge about all the frameworks handy (unfortunately, I misplaced that info in another file for my interview prep), nor did I think I'd be expected to know that for the interview since the recruiter said it wasn't necessary. This kind of discovery would be part of the job and what they'd be hiring me for. They already have a Technical Architect who doesn't have expertise or bandwidth to deal with it and they want to expand the XR team quickly. Overall they came across as smug and lacking breadth. They were completely unresponsive to my follow up emails (two). Which included all the XR frameworks I'd looked into and more, with some additional research and my recommendations to show I could follow through. I even offered to provide another demo of some AR and a presentation and heard nothing. How do they expect to fill this role quickly with this kind of conflicting info? You don't need to have experience with it, but in reality they want someone to architect a solution for them in 5m with no heads up. Those are two entirely opposing descriptions. Having ramped up many times on different languages and different frameworks in >25y of development and management, I can see this group is lacking experience, insight and probably a bit of humility. I won't say what infrastructure they're using, but they're wasting a ton of money on it, when there is much less costly solution. There weren't coding exercises and unfortunately for both of us there was one engineer that I could not understand at all. I literally could only understand 2 words that he said and had to guess what he was asking me. No one jumped in and offered to clarify until several minutes of me saying , "I'm sorry but I'm not really cerain what you asking" and then guessing. I'm saying the interview difficulty was easy, because it was, I was just misinformed about what I needed to know and what they were looking for. so it was a complete waste of their time because they're not being specific about what candidates need to have expertise in. i chose to polish up on React (and last night Redux), which I can use at my current job or the next one. And if I learn any XR frameworks/software, it won't be for them! Also after my screening interview I was given a score via email of over 80. They subtracted points for not knowing React, XR frameworks and asking for too much money. :D All in all this gives me the impression that they want an architect with expertise in React, XR and Lambdas/Serverless. They don't want to change their infrastructure and they want an engineer who can write they're own AR framework or suggest something better than what they're using and they don't want to play a lot for it (hence the relaxed job description). This isn't helping anyone. If they spent less money on infrastructure, they could afford to pay people what they're worth or give them time to ramp up on the job, not expect a solution to their problems in the interview. This was not a standard coding challenge or basic architecture question, but a very niche/specific category and was the only question of its kind.