Initial HR screening call went great. After the screening call, I had a video interview with the hiring manager who decided to turn my interview into a spur of the moment skills/technical test, which I obviously wasn't prepared for. Interview lasted well over an hour. I was told I'd hear back by end of week, which didn't happen. After following up the next week, I received a very simple response a few days later saying they're going a different direction. While I understand interviews can be conducted different ways, I wasn't prepared to be grilled on technical questions for 25+ minutes in an introduction interview. Also didn't appreciate being ghosted past the response deadline. Other than that, the experience went fine.

phone screening first and step forward to in person interview. Phone screening doesn't include special questions. It was easy to respond. Started with casual things and narrow downed to the specific things like salary, position.