A recruiter gave them my details without my permission. The HR person impressed me as nice and honest, so I decided to proceed. There were several steps: 1. Phone screening with HR 2. Technical conversation with a developer 3. Technical interview + behavioral panel with 2 interviewers - HR phone screening: The screening was a simple conversation to make sure both my needs and the company's needs are aligned and we both expressed interest in continuing the process. I expressed my desire to work remotely and the HR agreed since they work in hybrid mode. We agreed to proceed to the technical phone screening which was scheduled for 30 minutes. - Technical phone screening: The interviewer said the conversation could take between 30-45 minutes. I let him know that I have only 30 minutes to dedicate to the meeting as agreed. In the end there was plenty of time due to how easy the technical part was. I commented the exercises were not difficult if you know the ground rules very well. The interviewer seemingly thought I was arrogant. So if you are a true senior of high ability and experience, I would suggest playing nice & dumb and commenting on how difficult the exercise was. Perhaps even pretend to take your time solving the exercises... I didn’t ask many questions - I said I would ask them in the next phase. That is a mistake. They apparently like talkative people - you should ask as many questions as possible. Don’t rush the interview. You should also probably match yourself to them as much as possible. I got the impression they are looking for copies / clones. The Technical + Behavioral panel: 2 interviewers. Once I actually saw the interviewers I estimated high probability of being discriminated against due to ageism or whatever reason dreamed up to mask it in order to avoid a legal issue. Technical part: The technical level was higher than the previous screening but still something I would expect for a junior position. A positive point for them is that they considered the idea that interviews are stressful situations and if I made a silly mistake they helped by (indirectly) pointing it out so we could move on. Behavioral part: They asked many questions which I added below. I too asked questions: About the company’s workflow and onboarding process; How they work in different teams across different time zones, their communication style and more. The Decision to reject was made practically on the spot but they only informed me about a week later. I got some honest feedback from the nice HR person. I was amazed since Israeli companies generally work very hard to hide the internals of their process. - I got the impression desire to work remotely was an issue * Perhaps the company intends to do full office work after a while? As expected, my technical skills were more than sufficient. However what played against me was (the official version at least) - Appreciation for a structured workflow and good onboarding process Apparently they have a messy workflow and bad onboarding - Not "sharing a lot" of past work (how do you define "a lot"?) - Not “seeming interested" in working for the company. They excused that by saying I didn’t ask questions (except I did ask.) It’s hard to take any such feedback seriously. I normally discard anything that is based on how things “seem/sound/feel” and any conclusions made not based on empirical data to back it up. That last one ("not seeming interested") is especially ridiculous. Keen readers will note this implies the candidate being dishonest and an impostor. As though they had some plan to interview/work in the company for nefarious purposes and they are masking their true intent. The notion that a candidate spends (unpaid) time but is not interested in working for the company and is even being dishonest about it - is ludicrous. I believe they came up the last one just to make up a valid non-discriminating reason but I’m not sure that is actually a good reason since it might be considered as libel with regards to the candidate’s character. The HR was puzzled of that false impression after the previous phone screen sync conversation we had. She actually wanted to plead my case - to tell the interviewers they got the wrong impression. I told her not to bother because I did not believe that any reason given/written was anything but a mask for the truth, which was probably a personal (most likely discriminating) issue, She tried anyway... and failed to change the outcome, as expected. (Though to be accurate - I have no proof of the attempt beyond her claims) Overall I would say the process was disrespectful and a waste of time. At least it was for me.