The process was way too long, and could have easily been done panel style instead of setting aside 4 hours of back to back interviews. All of the interviews were bullet pointy, stuff around OOP. All of the interviewers were generally pretty nice, but only one of them felt like an actual conversation. My one major issue was that at the end they determined I was somewhere middle ground between a mid-range engineer and a senior. So, if given this position, they would not be able to offer me the Senior title and in turn, the salary I requested (and currently receiving). Even though the position/work would have been the same, they didn’t want to “set me up for failure”. Which seemed a little ridiculous for a huge company to be nit picking over $10,000. Also burned a little because an old colleague of mine with almost identical experience was given the benefit of the doubt within that company and received the Senior title about 6 months before I applied and interviewed, but was a man, so take from that what you will. As for the technical interviews, just a few gripes with one particular interviewer. In one scenario he was asking about my resume having “database migration” and asking what data I migrated, and responded saying I was referring to flyway database migrations (and offered a brief explanation), and then again asked what data I migrated. Same interviewer also asked if I had a high api load what type of db I would chose, relational or nosql, to which I responded how that is not the only criteria I would use to chose, and listed what else I would need and where my decision would go based off that. Then proceeded to ask me the same question again, clearly fishing for a direct answer. All in all, he seemed like he wanted me to fill the standardized test bubble, instead of listening for my technical competency within my answer.