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Process: 1. 30min HR screen video call 2. 30min call with an engineer 3. take home terraform test 4. another 30 min call with the same engineer, 1 hour talk with hiring manager Overall the interview experience was not fantastic. HR were very friendly and good throughout the process, but the technical interview was quite poor. The first 30 minute call with an engineer was not technically challenging at all, but it was a first round call so not hugely surprising. I was then given a terraform take home test, which was quite straightforward. Apparently I was supposed to have a meeting with somebody to review my code, but I just received an email saying I had passed. The second time I spoke to the engineer he said it was odd nobody had reviewed it and took a quick look at the time - it seemed like his terraform skills were quite basic as I had to explain various concepts and reasoning such as applying the output of a previous plan rather than just applying, and he gave the code a rubber stamp without really looking. This slightly annoyed me as I spent a fair amount of time on the assessment, and it was barely looked at by the reviewer. He wasn't particularly prepared as he didn't have any questions and was quite obviously making things up as he went along, asking things like "what runs on port 21" and "where might you find logs on a windows server". All the questions he asked were very basic and had short answers. The 1 hour call with the hiring manager was good, he mainly assessed soft-skills, career background and team fit. Ultimately I didn't receive an offer despite successfully completing all the technical questions, apparently because they decided the role wouldn't be exciting enough and I would probably not stay at the company for long and they couldn't offer me work on shiny new technologies (containers, serverless etc). They also only told me at the end that weren't willing to pay the salary I requested, despite this being in the range we discussed at our initial call. Tech stack also seems outdated from what I can tell, so be warned. TLDR; friendly people although unorganised, not challenging technically interview, old tech