Recruiter screen followed by manager screen, then a coding exercise with AI assistant, then a take-home code review. The recruiter seems like an honest and nice guy. Super upfront about the interview process and salary band. The manager is bragging about how he wants 10x results from his team with the help of AI. He questioned my experience as if I don't know anything. Kept saying he didn't see the scope of my work, even though I explained the multi-team project I've led for a few quarters. Even asked me how many lines of code on a service I built. I didn't even bother explaining any further since he already made his mind. I can also imagine how stressful it would be to work with him based on the bragging about 10x results. He even asked me why do I even applied to this job if I'm not a good fit. I was excited about the role, but after talking with the manager, it is totally a waste of time interviewing there.

I was told to expecton backend programming topics and no leetcode style questions and expect to use Cursor. Person who interviewed with me was from a different team and they asked me a leet code question on a browser based phyton ide . If I was given correct information I would have study on algorithm questions.