Recruiter ghosted the meeting - This is next level in this market. Recruiter scheduled a meeting - the position gets filled - recruiter mails me 10 mins after the call that the position is filled If he realised at the last moment, least should have the decency to fake talk with me and then say that they found a better candidate

The first step is to discuss with a recruiter to make sure that you will enjoy to work here. We discussed about the company culture, its main products, how I like to work, salary expectations, etc. Afterwards, there's a technical interview that I found rather unique. I did pair programming and TDD with the interviewer, but I was in the role of the navigator. You can discuss and help him write the code to pass pre-determined tests. Nothing too difficult, think easy-difficulty puzzles on LeetCode. Then I met my future team lead. He asked me some questions about how I approach problems, what kind of projects I've worked on before, what I value in a project, etc. Then I met my potential future teammates, product manager and team lead. It included another pair programming session, this time as the driver. This one felt more like a day-to-day regular user story, where we had to add a feature to an existing project. I ran out of time before the end but that didn't seem like a big deal. I found the pair programming approach interesting and I could tell right away that we'd get along. The recruiter reached back to me shortly after with an offer, he was really helpful and answered any questions I still had. Good luck!