The hiring manager interview for a backend engineer role at Realtor.com was unfortunately a poor experience. Despite clearly outlining my backend expertise, the interviewer persistently focused on ML, leading to a significant mismatch with the role's expectations conveyed by the recruiter. The interaction felt unproductive and somewhat unwelcoming.

- Was reached out by external recruiter and after that with lead tech person and did initial interview about my background. In both cases I've expressed my concern that I come from different tach stack that company does. In both cases each one of them reassured it was fine by the company. - Next step was home assignment (pretty common algo question with couple solutions + utnitests) where I spend few hours of my life. Got confirmation its done very well and team eager to meet me. - Scheduled 4 hours interview with 3 different interviewers one after another in same day and then communication details were not sent to me. - As a result 2 interviewers didn't showed up at all - After rescheduling one of them didn't showed up second time (great way to improve first impression) - So basically my vacation day (since interview with this company was very important to me) scheduled for interview was just thrown away. - The most ridiculous part: on a initial interview I've mentioned I come with different tech background than required, but was reassured it is ok. Feedback on rejection was that I've received was: candidate has no experience in our field. Most unprofessional recruitment process that I've seen in whole my career (8+ years in the field).