standard interview questions During first stage: The questions are mainly a discuss on what I was looking for and about the role. The interviewer made it clear that it was hands-on. I had made it very clear that I was hands-on. The interviewer then assured me that it was hands-on. I think by this time you would assume the interviewer knew what I was looking for was hands-on scala work. During second stage: 1st interviewer was with data scientists - the person was late by 20-30 mins, did not know difference between svm's kernel svm's and structured svms' but kept going on about it. Asked me a lot of questions unrelated to role. 2nd interviewer was an architect - but kept asking me questions on Java again totally unrelated to role. You would assume person will ask you questions on Scala at this time. But, not a single question was on Scala. In fact, I kept directing to question towards scala trying to put the questions in context to the role of how I had used that language in projects as you would expect in a Scala developer interview. 3rd interviewer was a manager - asked me a lot of contradictory questions like we looking for a hands-on role but just to be clear this not a very hands-on role. Now I am wondering so you said on phone that this was going to be a hands-on role and you still have not asked me any scala questions or spark questions. It is just very pointless when interviewers just want to waste your time. In fact the feedback stated they were looking for a hands-on scala developer. A) which I was and was exactly looking for that which I made it very clear on phone and during the interview with all three interviewers with evidence of projects B) they never bothered to ask me about scala during interview and I kept relating projects towards that.