Applied by a reference. One interview with the recruiter. They will say the salary depends of your seniority, and the seniority depends of one technical interview, enjoy. One technical interview with an engineer. The technical interview defined your seniority, if you are lucky you will be defined as architect, the interviewer only will ask you about his own knowledge, if the interviewer has poor experience, then he/she will said you are they same level or less, never more than she/him. So don't expect any whiteboard coding test. They hire people without test them their coding skill. So, you should always said to the recruiter you are a arquitect level.