Ridiculously convoluted and pathetic process.
Initially there were two rounds conducted by a third party hiring partner, BarRaiser. First round was a Javascript/Problem solving round, followed by a React system design round. Ironically, the best interview rounds were the ones conducted by outsiders. The interviewers were really polite and asked sensible questions.
Then comes the third round, which was informed by the recruiter as a "ReactJS" round. However, the interviewer asked not a single React question and decided it would be a DS round. Well and good.
The supposedly last round was a hiring manager round, which went really well.
The drama starts afterwards. Despite being clear with my CTC requirements at the very beginning, the recruiters started lowballing me and quoted something far below my current CTC (lol). Then they went on having an hour long call with me saying how great their team is and how I should be proud about working under someone who worked with Elon Musk.
Anyway, after hearing my disinterest in their offered CTC, they asked me for my documents. I thought that's it. But boy, I was wrong.
They stopped all communication for two weeks and then called all of a sudden to arrange another interview before my "final selection". The interview was supposed to be a hiring manager round. For a frontend position.
The interviewer, throughout the interview, kept asking about devops and infrastructure questions and when I talked about frontend, retaliated saying that he doesn't want frontend specific answers. (Mind you - for a frontend position). I was flabbergasted and understood this was both a waste of my time and the interviewers time who apparently had a preconceived distaste for anything frontend.
And that was the last communication with Tekion before they ghosted me, after being in the interview process for about 2 months.
