Summary: --Pros-- * The recruiters. * Salary transparency. * Writing test. --Cons-- The interview. This was one of the worst interviewing experiences of my career. Based on the interview questions, I clearly didn't have the background they were looking for, leaving me to wonder why I was invited to interview for the position. Details: I do not have banking experience, but I felt given my background and skills I was capable of performing the duties of the job, so I completed an application on the company website. About a week later I was contacted by a recruiter for a phone screen. During the phone screen the recruiter was very cordial and gave me more information about the position, including the salary range. I really appreciated the salary transparency. She asked me some preliminary questions about my experience and then said she wanted to advance me to the next step, which was to complete a writing test. I really enjoyed the writing test because it gave me a good idea of the type and scope of documentation that I would be writing if hired. I completed the writing test and a couple days later I received an automated email message saying the next step was to participate in an interview. I received a separate email with a Teams invite. There were two interviewers who had 4 prepared questions. Two of the questions were fairly generic. The remaining two questions were very specific situational questions that I thought could only be answered by someone with banking experience in the role for which they were hiring or a closely related role. They were looking for specific/concrete examples in the responses to their questions. One of the interviewers seemed to become frustrated with me for not providing concrete examples. But I didn't have them because I don't have industry experience. At one point I seriously thought about disconnecting from the interview as if I had lost my internet connection. It was that bad. My background, experience, and writing test showed that I could do the job. And somewhere behind the scenes one or more people there thought the same and decided I should interview. But if they looked at my application and resume alongside the interview questions, they would have seen the mismatch immediately. A couple days later the recruiter called me to say that I was not moving forward in the process. That was not a surpirse to me. I really appreciated the personal phone call to let me know, as opposed to receiving a computer generated email message or, worse yet, being ghosted. Despite my inability to answer several of the questions, I'm rating the interview difficulity as Average. I think if you had industry experience, particularly in the specialty area for which they were hiring, it would have been average. I've blocked out/blacked out on the interview questions they asked, except the one below.