It was one of the most bizarre processes I experienced in my career… look, the position was for Azure Integration Developer… I have 4 Azure certifications, not just on the integration side, but also in Platform, I’m an instructor, and I’ve worked on serious projects for the UK government, in short... I have a lot of experience and property in this subject matters. But the person who interviewed me… wow, I’ll try to explain. It’s not that he wasn’t at my level… he simply had no qualifications at all. He was actually a traditional web developer who was literally subverting the company and molding it into something he could dominate. Something really harmful. So, literally all the basic Azure Integration mantras he despised, rejected, had complete aversion to! Logic Apps? The devil’s work! API Manager? Complete rubbish! Azure Functions? No way - This is really bad! Since he was an old-school web developer, extremely interested in staying in his comfort zone, to him, the best way to integrate was not using ANY of the popular Azure resources, meaning: his perfect world was to lift up VMs with .NET Core web applications and create APIs on top of engines that primarily serve web apps, because web apps can provide both interfaces and REST APIs. Authentication? To him, the best way was is to use MSAL and other really old-school methods – not that MSAL isn’t used in Azure Functions; depending on the authentication flow or the need to use Graph API, it might even be necessary – but the problem was him claiming it as the only and best solution, completely ignoring OpenID, authentication via API Manager, and other interesting methods that might be better in many scenarios. The entire interview was like this… him trying to convince me that these Azure services for integration are stupid and everything he knows is the best and only option and enything different is heretic – and me trying to explain the pros and cons, but being interrupted halfway through, sometimes even with a tone of hatred, because clearly, I was questioning his ‘religion,’ and he couldn’t accept that. I ended up asking to terminate the interview because there was no possibility of a constructive dialogue. But I was concerned about the company itself, because apparently, they don’t have a leadership figure in the tech area, and someone like him could be very harmful to the business. So I emailed the two HR people, explaining what happened and suggesting they hire an independent consultant to assess their environment because I found that scenario very disturbing. But HR didn’t even respond to my email, I was ignored. So, to the managers of this company… let it be known that if something goes wrong in the future, there were people trying to warn you, and HR failed to protect the company.