HR started a friendly call and email interview set-up with the hiring team in a week. But from there, everything went downhill. HR asked for my past payslips in the beginning and I wasn't even interviewed yet. It was the first redflag. Then, HR gets quiet after receiving my expected salary. The interview itself was the worst. The interviewer was distracted, kept thinking and mumbling about her meetings. She was not a true software engineer because she couldn't accept that there can be multiple solutions to a problem.

The interview was a group interview, I was interviewed twice. The first interview was easy with two problems that I had to solve. The second interview was with a team manager, half in English.

We had a hackathon for two days in which iterative shortlistings was done to select the people. Before this, a basic coding round where 2 questions were asked. Those who were shortlisted went into the hackathon process. Two rounds of hackathon spanned over 2 days happened and the results were announced at the end of day 2.