It was an easy and smooth process.
As usual, the first thing was a screening call.
A technical Task then a Technical interview to discuss the task.
Finally the offer interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Most of the questions were about the task and Mongodb.
1) I was told during the first round that I wouldn't have to deal with Data Engineering and would just focus on Data Science. There was a 180 shift the next round, where ____ said that, as mentioned the last time, I'd have to deal with Data Engineering. This is called 'shifting the goalposts,' but worse, there was a factual lie about what had been said.
2) Yet another factual lie, which really gives the impression your company is not trustworthy at all. ___ claimed that I'd written on my LinkedIn profile that I was 'known for __' I quickly pointed out that I'd never said that I was 'known for,' and joked that I was known only to them. You'd think that ___ might be humble enough to at least acknowledge that his memory might've been at fault there, but no, he somehow thought he'd be more certain of this than the person who actually wrote it. What this displays is not necessarily just faulty memory, which is the lesser of the faults, but a lack of humility, and to the outside world too, possibly even a projection of envy - where is this thing about 'known for' coming from, perhaps except that someone assumes another is quite 'known' and is resentful of that?
3) Not going to get into the inconsideration of scheduling a long interview assignment before even meeting with the team, speaking with whom I would've well avoided wasting more than 4h of my time and potentially solving a problem for them with free work too. After I pointed out the asymmetry of the time I'd spend on the assignment compared with the time they'd spend on me, they did waive this assignment to proceed to the interview rounds.