Initial meeting with HR and management; this was really pleasant and lasted something over an hour. Next was a tech test - this was meant to take no more than two hours, but in reality took much, much longer as I needed to learn the coding language concerned enough to be able to complete the test. The language concerned was not part of the job I later confirmed. Part three was a short review (20 minutes or so) of the testing that I had done in the tech test with the overall test lead. My actual tech test was good, evidently, however I was blown out because the way I worked for my current employer was incompatible with the way the interviewer wanted things done, and the interview was terminated. I'm not 100% what I said to prompt this - I work how my employer asks me to work. Having over three decades experience with some very high profile employers and having shown myself to be adaptable enough to learn a new language just for a test I would have thought shows that I can take on different methodologies. Who knows? The fourth part would have been a more general tech interview with others - I cannot report on this as I didn't make it this far. All interviews, like many things in life, are an experience that one can learn from, but I felt that this one wasted an awful lot of time - the objections that the interviewer had in the third interview (whether right or wrong) could have been very easily established within minutes in an initial triage type interview, the tech test second and the first part should have been last. It all seemed to be a bit on it's head to me. From friends I have that work at 90poe it is evidently a very nice company to work for, so my impression of a rigid, dogmatic testing methodology is probably wrong. I'm giving the "interview difficulty" an "easy" as the actual interview was over quite quickly and I didn't get much chance to say much about what I do or can do. The actual interview process was another matter - for the last 20 years I've had roles through word of mouth recommendation and I'm hoping that this isn't the industry norm.
