PostBeyond interview questions

Process: - Phone screen - Personality quiz - In person - Take home coding assignment First was a phone screening of 20 minutes with a person from an outsourced talent team. Then invited for an in-person interview the following week. I was greeted very warmly. The in person part of the interview involved two people of developer and lead roles. From here on, it went down hill. My experience with the two people felt awkward, they sit you down and begin asking purely technical questions off a sheet of paper. They struggled to clarify their questions which showed a lack of knowledge around the technology. Upon answering their questions, I didn't get any reaction or response. The in person apparently went well as they sent me a take home coding assignment. The take home was simple to complete and I finished it in a day. After a week or so, I was contacted by the outsourced talent recruiter, declining me because I wasn't experienced enough for the position. Got confused because they gave no feedback on the assignment and rejections based on less experience should have been determined in the earlier stages of the interview and/or my resume. So why send the follow up assignment if I didn't fit the experience criteria?

The application was one of the things that attracted me to this company since process was very different from the usual send the resume and cover letter out into the ether and wait for a reply. The process started with an online application form with several questions that were directly related with handling situations related to the position itself, such as how to respond to a customer's email, what a great support experience is like, how to improve support documentation and my own goals working for the company. I was contacted a few days later for a phone interview followed a few days after that by an in person interview. The interview was once again very creative and required critical thinking as opposed to interview prep. There were three parts to the interview, which I was given instructions on how to prepare for in advance: a roleplaying support situation, a spreadsheet analysis situation, and an opportunity to discuss my prior work through examples. After this I was asked to return for again for a more traditional type of interview, this time with with a panel of people from different departments, in order to get insight into how interactions with the whole team would go. This was followed by a reference check and a final phone interview with the CEO before being offered the position.