I initially went through a screening call with the hiring manager, this was a very general discussion and left me with a positive outlook moving into my next discussion. It mostly consisted of talks about my roles, why I applied and what the company does/is. The next interview was a technical interview and consisted of 4 segments: - Experience based on CV (15 minutes) - Coding Exercise (20 minutes) - GCP Usage (15 minutes) - Comparison on GCP / AWS and the differences in my exposure to them (10 minutes) Throughout the interview there were no discussions on anything I had worked with, or my prior experience on real world tasks. I would explain something, then we'd move onto the next topic. There was no deep dive into what I have worked with or on in prior positions I have held and a lot of emphasis on the coding exercise, which for a someone in a DevOps/SRE role. The challenge was to add two binary strings together, which in my 10+ years of experience is something I've never had to do. In my case, during the interview I struggled with understanding the core requirements and whilst I explained and understood what was needed, couldn't get that into the program in time and ended that segment without finishing the exercise and overall doing quite poorly. Throughout the interview, the interviewer didn't seem engaged in my experience or prior roles. They did provide some help with understanding the coding exercise but did not really provide much insight beyond "Yes" or "No" when specifically asking about the way I was implementing things. From my experience during the interview, it feels as though they are looking for an experience software engineer to take the role of DevOps. My suggestion to the company is to adjust your expectations and ensure the format of the discussion is more tailored for the job description. The job description did not give me any indication that there was such a heavy emphasis on the ability to write code. Additionally, consider diving into things you know a candidate has worked with. Play to their strengths to see if they can explain to you how they did something and use that to determine whether the candidate would be a good fit, particularly for people in the DevOps/SRE space.