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I think the problem is they knew his CV and were interviewing him for a senior role. It's a little manipulative to string him along as interviewing for a senior

• pc86 5y ago
  It says in the quoted paragraph that they downlevelled him due to his answers in the interview, particularly soft questions. Soft skills are extremely important for a senior, much more than a mid.
  • 2arrs2ells 5y ago
    I think you missed the “wasn’t” in this sentence: > it wasn't based on my answers to soft questions
• magneticnorth 5y ago
  > never would have hired him for that role. Reading between the lines, and having been involved in tech hiring for junior - low-level senior roles, my guess is that they were open to his being at the level of a more senior role than his experience suggested, but his interview performance suggested he really was a more mid-level candidate, like you'd expect from his experience. It is exceedingly rare that recruiting will give feedback on anything at all subjective; if the true reasoning is "your interviewing reflected your observed years of experience which puts you at mid-level" then the feedback to the candidate is going to be about their years of experience, not the interview performance.
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• norman784 5y ago
  > Most of the "frontend work" I saw was via Rails ERB templates It seems that he didn't consider erb frontend or he dislikes it, he was expecting to work on js/react or whatever other framework he knows/likes. That demostrates that he doesn't fully understand what a frontend developer job is.