It was a chat with the new CTO about my previous experience (which is wide and long). Two days after the chat I have received this feedback from the CTO (which was to me via my employment agent): “Good conversation but right now not the best fit, but happy to stay in contact when the team is built out further and more solid.” I think this should be enough for most who read it to draw their own conclusions. My perspective is that I was too experienced for the team, which is quite upsetting because experienced people usually can understand ongoing problems better and help the team more without necessarily pushing them to apply some practices and standards they may be still not ready for.

First stage interview with usual questions. 2nd stage with tech lead with some architecture questions and experience discussion no real structure. Seem to go well but no offer or feedback. As others have said no real recruitment process in place so would suggest not to waste time here until it improves.