Ticket Tailor interview questions

First interview was quite ok, with a charming Product Design person. After that I was assigned to do a small home task to design and develop in only HTML, Javascript and CSS (zero framework like React or Vue). I was invited to the technical interview, which supposed to be about the task but I had a 30min interview with 1 Fullstack (more Backend) and 1 Design person, mostly asking extremely Senior Level technical questions. Some of them were more related to the Backend than Front. What confused me the most, was the reason they don't use any frontend framework. When I asked about that, I was just bashed out like was some secret.

Two screening video calls with the Tech leader and CEO followed by a technical test and a face-to-face session. The tech test was fairly simple although the requirements seemed a little too specific to their business. The following stage was a 2.5 hrs face-to-face interview which included 30min tech test review, 1hr 30min UX/UI interview and a 30min cultural interview. The big chunk of the interview was the UX/UI part which in my opinion felt more like a free consultation. They were asking to fix very specific issues with their existing dashboard. The final cultural interview was a nice chat, but multiple times the CEO came into the room - weirdly - trying to cut it short. A week or so later they requested a further 45min tech interview where they “needed to ask questions that didn’t have time to ask during the - very long - face-to-face session”. During this interview, they asked some generic behaviour/technical questions, while other were yet a little too specific to their future plans with their product. The day after the last interview I received an email that they didn’t want to proceed with an offer, which came to me with a bit of surprise as I always received positive feedbacks from them during each stage of the interview process. Although the people I spoke to seemed very nice, I always felt that they were trying to use this process just to gather fresh ideas for FREE!!! Be careful as their interview process is very long and will take up a lot of your personal time.