About a year ago I saw a job posting for - Impala Staff/Senior Software Engineer, Test & Automation - at Cloudera. I applied for it. The recruiter called me and we set up time for phone screen coding interview. After the coding phone screen I was told I did very well in it so I was called in for an onsite interview. I met 4 people. Person 1 did the QA interview, which I did not fare well. Person 2 did the coding/QA interview , which was not too bad. Person 3 did pure coding interview, this I did good. The code on white board was for a kind of tree traversal. From there we segued into a feature I implemented using BFS, DFS algorithms. I remember this conversation with great fondness because this interviewer was a rare developer who understood and appreciated the work I had done. Person 4 was a QA person from the group who among other questions was trying to fathom why would I want to become a QA after more than 15 years as developer/tech lead/architect. I could not convince this person 4 that I actually understand the complexity of the job and intellectually challenged by it, resulting in my desire to join the group. It is not a stepping stone for me. I was called back after the interview to be told that I was not considered because they think I would be unhappy at the job. Almost a year after that I was called out of blue by recruiter for Cloudera again for the same job. I was asked if I was still interested in it. I said very much yes. An exploratory call with the present manager of the group was set up. In the conversation I expressed my interest, the complexity of the product interests me a lot. I was told a phone coding interview will be set up. So exactly a year later I was doing yet another phone coding interview which IMO I did not do bad. Maybe if I had 15 more mins I would have completed the implementation and tested it too. Two days later I was told that I will not be considered for the position by the QA manager, because "Unfortunately, you did not do well on coding which is why we are passing on your candidacy for now. " This has been my experience, I hope others have a better one. I do understand that not every interview results in job offer.