I was called by a recruiter, and based on my experience of more than 8.5 years, asked me to interview for Staff Engineer Role, I agreed to same and started the process During my first interview, I came to know that I am being interviewed for Senior Software Engineer, I checked the same with the recruiter, he said that it is for Staff engineer only, and there could be some confusion which will be rectified Next I got a call from the HR of the company saying that, its a flat structure and designation won't create a difference monetarily and role wise, I agreed to the same and continued the process to complete the 2nd technical interview. In the next interview I got a complete differnent picture, the interviewer was adament that I am not fit to work as a SSE with this experience and my current Job role, he gave me JS questions and was trying to prove me wrong at every step, once I have to execute the code, just to prove that this is correct code, sad experience.