During introductions, everyone was pretty welcoming and communicative about what they wanted. My position was going to be a senior developer in mentoring developers. Here is the run-down. They gave me a homework assignment that they said takes 1 to 2 hours. It took me 3. They paid me for it. They gave me an excel spreadsheet with data and I needed to build a website for them. Gave it to them via google drive. Pre-interview, we had some back and forth on trying to get my homework deployed on their end, and they couldn't figure it out, even though they say they had devs with .NET experience. I was able to deploy it easily on IIS on my machine, as well as another machine I owned, and on a newly spun-off AWS server (thank god I did btw). When the interview happened, their preparation was bad. I'm coming from a dot net workplace, and they are ColdFusion with plans to go to Golang. Se it seemed a bit suspicious during the interview that they critiqued .NET paradigms like EF. Ok, and you couldn't even spin a simple application on IIS even as a deployable web package. When I walked into the room, there were about 10 people there and a projector. They never loaded the homework onto that machine They never looked at the code. And they never talked about the homework. My plan was to salvage this by trying to load the homework on their server from google drive and show them what I did on AWS. I demoed the site, but couldn't get the code over because of the size and their dial-up speeds. After that sad excuse for an interview, I went to their HR rep for 15 mins. Telling me all my benefits. And I'm thinking, Uhm, so that means I got the job? Here are the two reasons why I didn't get the job. First reason: I used Trello and they couldn't figure out parent-child relationships. I had a single column called "Done" and that's where all my cards were. They couldn't wrap their heads around that. It was hard to explain because Trello doesn't have parent-child relationships explicitly shown unless you used the google plugin pro4trello. I explained this. Second reason: Those devs with background .NET experience have no idea of the difference between "self-contained" vs "framework dependent". I gave them a self-contained project that didn't need a framework pre-installed. That's why it was over 100MB. Otherwise, it would have been 3 MB. They said the code I gave them, the one they never did anything with, was too large.