After solving the codility test, had a "general tech" interview for the backend/data engineer role. The hiring manager just heard a few minutes of what I did in my current role and we didn't go through any of my other experiences and projects. After that I was just bombarded with specific hard technical questions on data engineering tools at a rate of 1 per minute until the end. The engineer had no interest in my learning capabilities, social skills, leadership, team fit, or any relevant experience. I can verify that it definitely wasn't a "General Tech" interview let alone a technical interview. Towards the end it was evident that the recruiter wasn't attentive when I got to ask questions about the product and team overall. He misunderstood all my questions and gave short irrelevant answers. Zalando has a real problem standardizing the recruitment process. I have many friends who work at Zalando who had a proper "General Tech" interview where the process followed a 45-60 min back and forth productive talk on experiences, skills and some technical abilities. Knowing this I feel like hiring managers are not trained properly trained to follow Zalando guidelines when conducting these interviews.