There has been a mixup at the screening stage already so I went into the interview with some serious doubts. I’ve been requested to make a presentation on my work prior to the interview. Interviewers didn’t seem to have much experience in hiring for the design field. Instead of the presentation we went into the competency based questionnaire which was a template set of questions and prompts. Questions were convoluted and were asking about the same things I wanted to cover in the presentation. It felt like a checkbox exercise with the STAR based response model taken too literally. For a field that requires adaptability the interview design showed extreme lack thereof. When we got to the presentation everything felt like repetition already. The interview was very slow and badly designed. Kudos to the recruiter for getting back to me with feedback in less then a week - originally they said it would be 1-2 weeks until they responded. No offer, but no hard feelings. Wouldn’t have taken one anyway.