Structured, in depth. Lots of fit questions as well as past performance. Role play and mini project. Met with multiple people on the team. Was good to see how they value the process of selecting new team members.

Weirdest interview I've gone through in recent years. Interviewer, a group leader in the company with an impressive pedigree, sounded like he was trying to 3D print me into his ideal hire. Probably doing this to others : 1-3-1, Intro, Skill Dive, Admin. Interviewer reminded me that this was a conversational interview in which we were both evaluating eachother as a potential fit; the style actually skewed omnidirectionally towards didactic / pedantic. The middle third of the interview involved me sequentially being probed for evidence of skills and experience that in no way, shape, or form proclaimed themselves in my professional profile. I felt the urge to bow out, but I forged ahead b/c social conventions. Comparable to an attorney interviewing for a legal job in which the interviewer asks the applicant about his / her thoracic surgery acumen or experience mining rare earth metals, as these are an unpublished "nice-to-have" for the role, this went on, awkwardly, for fifteen minutes. The cherry on the cake was when, at the very end ("Admin"), in spite of a decade and a half of every educational / professional line items on my resume occurring within 2 cities in the United States dating back to high school, he asked if I was authorized or would ever need to be sponsored to work in the USA. If I could pin a Peter Gregory gif to this review, I would.