The hiring manager reached out to me and offered me an interview. Chatting with them went well, although I was surprised by how few questions they asked about my past experience, why I left my last company, or what I had been doing/learning in the meantime. I then did an hour long technical interview. I was shocked at how simple the questions were, and thought it was almost insulting for the senior position I was interviewing for. The entire coding interview could have been about 5 minutes of carefully worded questions that accessed what I knew, and could have gone much, much deeper then. Instead it was more focused on specifics that could easily be googled or fixed if it were a real project. First they asked me to write out how to add an S3 bucket into AWS (you copy and paste the code from a doc and edit it with your bucket name) and then they asked me to write a script in under 15 minutes that would parse a YAML file and upload files into S3. I was surprised at how much the engineer was walking me through things that are just the wrong way to do them.. such as adding unnecessary random security loopholes and insisting it was better to have more. Afterwards I double checked with a friend who's worked at AWS for over a decade and he agreed the interviewer was confused, as it actually makes the bucket easier to become public accidentally the way they wanted it setup. And well, the entire interview would have been more appropriate for a very junior engineer in their first five years of their career. It kind of felt like they were only interviewing me because I'm a minority in tech and they needed to hit some diversity quota, because none of it felt like a real interview. Even though I answered every question correctly they turned me down and said they would be giving no feedback on why, which really made this feel like it was a complete waste of my time. I don't get why they left so much time for me to ask questions at the end either, when they were planning on saying no anyways. Instead they could have used that time to ask much harder questions to actually gauge what I know.