I applied for the position via LinkedIn. A few days later a "Senior Technical Recruiter" reached out to me via email to schedule a phone screen. This particular recruiter only had one available time slot two weeks out, which I booked. The "Senior Technical Recruiter" went through the normal recruiting questions; asked about job history, what I'm looking for in my next role, etc. They then described a few roles they had open and asked my experience in them. To be very clear, this is a "Senior Technical Recruiter" that was hired by, and was working for Peloton -- not some third party recruiting firm. Full disclosure, I am not a software engineer, have never been a software engineer, and have no desire to ever be purely a software engineer. That being said, I can code when needed, and have many years of documented projects showcasing that I can code. I made this very clear to the "Senior Technical Recruiter" during the earlier stages of the interview. Then they (and I am paraphrasing here) hit me with this: Them: "So you have never been a software engineer?" Me: "No, I have not" Them: "Then it is very misleading to put X years of experience in Y programming language on your resume. It's basically lying." I don't know how anyone can claim to be a Senior Technical Recruiter, or better yet why a company would hire anyone to be a Senior Technical Recruiter, when the idea that experience in programming languages is only gained by being a Software Engineer. Once they called me a liar, I told them to withdraw my application from the role.

There were multiple rounds of interviews. Started with the phone screen with the recruiter. Then had four rounds with the hiring manager and team members. Interviews included a coding exercise, system design, SRE troubleshooting and a culture interview.