Standard Interview Marathon. Interviews with the recruiter, hiring manager, architect, code-review, whiteboard, managers over the course of 3 weeks. The technical people seemed competent and easy going. The Managers were stiff and unfriendly. The code challenge was create an integer server which wrote a distinct integers from 5 clients to a file. The performance requirement was 200K transactions per second on 8 core-16GB JVM. I delivered 2-4Million TPS on a 1GB JVM. According the the Recruiter, I was the only candidate (of the 4) to complete the coding challenge. The Code reviewer said "it was the best one he had ever seen" but didn't understand how the concurrency control worked and needed me to explain it. The Managers asked me over and over how I dealt with conflict. I spent 90 minutes explaining how to build consensus. Apparently, the are not a consensus building organization. In the final meeting with the hiring manager, he told me it was the managers that cast the veto and that they decided to eliminate the Job instead of hire me. So it turned out that New Relic is more interested in "cultural fit" than technical skill. So there is a reason New Relic's biggest challenge (according to them) is scalability. They reject talent that can help stretch the boundaries of their systems because Management is unable to manage diverse people. Sounds like they need new managers. They are lucky I am not a person-of-color, or there would have been a lawsuit.