Placed Software Engineer interview questions

Recruiter contacted me and called to discuss role. Hour long technical phone screen with team manager was scheduled within a week. Half day in-person Interview loop another week later with 5 people, including engineering manager for culture fit portion. It was pretty standard. The team was great to talk to and made me feel very comfortable during the interview. The only weird part was after the offer (but before the formal offer letter was sent to me) I was invited back for what seemed like another interview, because the role had not been correctly described to me. This secondary interview was ultra-casual and didn't give me any new information about the role, besides telling me more about the product that they work on. The only (very, very major) negative with the process is that ultimately, the role I was given was not the role I interviewed and presumably hired for. Even after that secondary clarification interview. The title, of course, was the same and the work given was similar, but the actual areas of expertise were not what the position was supposed to be for, and unfortunately none of this is explicitly formalized in the offer or signing of a contract with this employer.

The VP of Engineering reached out to me on Angel.co. Half an hour leading up to the call, I had to leave work to find a quiet place to prepare for the initial interview. I found their company pretty interesting and wanted to take the conversation seriously. Unfortunately when he did call, our conversation lasted no more than 5 minutes before he abruptly wanted to hang up and said they were looking for front-end engineers only. 1) My resume had back-end and application-level code written ALL OVER IT. 2) Their job listings had a variety of developer roles. Didn't even want to hear me out when I was expressing my sincere thanks - obviously valued his time much more over mine. Maybe do your homework and take at least a brief look at candidate resumes before wasting their time.