Interview was scheduled by Randstad.
Looking at their website, the company typically extracts data from the bank statements, loan statements, tax statement, financial statement to create reports(weather a person is eligible to be given loan or not etc) .
While I came early, the panel was late. Even before the interview is to be formally start, following were my observation:
1. Panel was not interest to take the interview at all.
2. He had a sign of arrogance and sarcasm while looking at my resume.
3. He was technically mediocre. (this was confirmed during by turn to ask questions).
And I wasn't wrong at all. In next 1 hour, while I was explaining about my project architecture and technical stack, he was neither attentive or interested, except for some 2 questions, there were no technical deep dive or followup or cross question whatsoever.
One thing I would like to highlight here:
During my turn to ask question: When I asked what kind of methods that they might be using to extract data and make analysis, his answer was "that is our (IP)Intellectual property". Obviously, at that context, I meant, were they using any ML/AI techniques which would have been exciting. A closed ended answer(yes/no) would have been sufficient instead of getting offended.