Interview process for a Senior Full Stack Developer role felt poorly designed and not representative of real engineering evaluation. The initial HR call was fine and the technical interview was scheduled immediately after. However, the “technical interview” itself was conducted entirely by the same HR person, who clearly did not have technical background. The whole session was simply screen sharing + coding while being recorded for engineers to review later. No actual engineer was present, no interaction, no discussion, no ability to clarify expectations or discuss trade-offs. There were two tasks: a backend task a frontend task involving filtering and sorting The process felt very transactional: “here’s the task, share your screen, comment while coding”. One example that stood out: during the frontend task, the HR asked me to add more mock data objects because she expected to visually see 10 items instead of 6. That made it pretty obvious there was no technical understanding of what was actually being evaluated. For a Senior-level role, this approach feels fundamentally flawed.