Blind interview without cv. Interviewer grilled on project history. Quite unstructured and not clear what they were actually looking for. Some competency based questions. Interviewer seemed nice but didn’t really offer any clues. Was first round interview on Teams

Lancia do 'closed book' style interviews, where the interviewer has not seen your CV before the interview - to remove bias. On one hand I do agree with the logic behind this approach ,however, it stopped Lancia directors realising early on that this person does not have the skill set they're after. This happened to me, I got all the way to the final interview and only to be told they were looking for someone that had experience in XYZ. I do have experience in that, and if they had have looked at my CV they would know that and could have tailored the interview to that. I have spoke to a few other people who have had interviews with Lancia and all have the same experience - get to the final interview only for a director to say you don't have a experience in something they're after.