The first interview was the introductory call. I had an opportunity to hear about the company and the team's responsibilities. Also, I learned more about the product itself. Moving forward I gave a quick overview of my experience and the tech stack I've worked with. During the interview, we also discussed non-technical stuff such as remote work, and the organization of tasks. We also had a word about the anomaly and privacy on the web. IT was a relaxed and great conversation overall. The only thing that was a bottleneck was the Contractor Agreement that the company is offering so you need to take care of paying your local taxes. Also, there is a lot of paperwork involved if you are planning to open a business entity. The next interview was supposed to be with the CEO and it's the last stage of the process. In the end, they decided not to go further with my application and the reason was quite irrelevant. It turned out that "other candidates had much longer/deeper experience with some of the requirements of the company (e.g. Linux, infrastructure management as a senior individual contributor)". However, I'm pretty sure I have met at least 90% of the requirements, especially regarding Linux System Administration and infrastructure management in general. When I asked for more clarified feedback, I didn't get the right answer except that other candidates had years and years of experience in System Administration and some of them had worked with VPN service infrastructure before (although I also worked with OpenVPN which was shown in my CV). Last but not least there was no seniority level specified in the job description so I'm quite disappointed with the outcome of this application as I would be a good fit for this role. What I am highly doubting is that one of the reasons for rejecting my application is the lack of specific information about my organization for paying out local taxes when receiving payments from IVPN. It may also be that my salary expectations were too high for them. Last but not least, I noticed the job posting for the same position was reposted a couple of weeks later so I realized it was all just an inappropriate excuse. I had contacted the responsible person in addition to this but no one has answered me yet. With all of the above said, I still have a good impression of this company and its way of doing things with a security mindset. The conversation I had was a nice experience overall despite their lack of more open feedback in the end.