Contacted by HR to setup 30 min interview with CTO. Initial 30 min talk with CTO to understand your experience and also to get a clear picture of what the company is about and looking for. After that an hour long technical interview with CTO and couple of engineers, on video chat. From my side the interview went well. The engineers were nice and we had a good discussion. Most of the questions were around my projects and how they were setup. Lot of Java and Spring Boot related questions and how I used them in my projects. The CTO is involved in all the interviews, since it's a small size company. But the vibe that I got was that CTO will hold it against you, if you are coming from a big size company. Because during the interview I had to hear 'well because you are a big corporation...' more times than you would expect. Later, recruiter confirmed it by telling me that he had heard similar comments from other candidates who happen to be working for a bigger corporation. I guess the concern might be that people might be able to fit in a start-up like size or culture or they don't get enough hands-on experience at a big company. I just hope they don't lose out on good candidates with that thought process. So, if you coming from a big size company be prepared for it. If the concern is not enough hands-on experience, then I would suggest they jump on the bandwagon of hackerrank and such online tests.