Stage 1: Video interview, 1:1. This one went great with the person and escalated to an invite for stage 2.
Stage 2: Two + One interviews. Two panel, then another interview with same person as the video interview.
Part 2 of the 2nd stage was basically a hangout session, since we already had an interview.
Part 1 was a company failure. Neither person from senior management showed up for the interview. The substitute interviewer found out ~15 minutes before the interview that he had to interview. He went over internal project engineering software. It was something I would have engineered, it was built and conceived correctly.
This was a mechanical interview, so I was going to keep quiet, but since he brought up this internal software, I decided to show him the project I had software engineering. The guy was being authentic and very happy and surprised at my experience. It seemed to be going excellent.
Shockingly the feedback I got was that it seemed like I wanted to get into or stay into software development.
The interviewer showed me a software project that he built over 10 years and I explained my software knowledge. Is he sure he's talking about me, and not himself?
Even the recruiter was surprised at the feedback.
