Misleading Job Description and Unclear Role Expectations !! I applied for a MERN Stack (React/Node) developer role, but my interview experience was extremely frustrating and unprofessional. Despite clearly applying for the React/Node position, I was interviewed for a role focused on HTML, CSS, and core JavaScript, which felt more like a designer/core JavaScript position. After two technical rounds, the project manager even suggested I join as an HTML designer, which was completely unrelated to the position I applied for. To make matters worse, the HR representative continuously asked me about my knowledge of various technologies that weren’t relevant to the role I had applied for. My resume clearly highlighted my skills and experience with the MERN stack, yet I was still bombarded with questions unrelated to the actual job description. This experience was a waste of time, and it’s clear that the company lacks clarity in its hiring process and role expectations. It felt like they didn’t know what they were looking for in a candidate.

Quite possibly the worst interview process I have ever been through in my career. The hiring manager was purposefully opaque in response to being asked anything regarding the role, including leaving emails unanswered multiple times when asked about what kinds of technology I would need to use for the coding portion of the technical interview. This method of hiding information from candidates is utterly ridiculous and results in a very negative experience. The interviews themselves are also conducted extremely poorly, the interviewer showed up very late and outright stated they only briefly glimpsed my resume just before the interview started. The types of questions are also odd, such as stating the specific technology is not important, and then asking for specific differences between certain frameworks (etc react vs other frontend frameworks). The live coding itself is very simple to the point of being pointless. The interviewer also expressed that he did not know the role or level of experience the role was hiring for, which is just nonsensical and shows a total lack of care.