I recently did an interview that went something like this too. The questions weren’t state machines. But like your experience, they boiled down to “I have some

I recently did an interview that went something like this too. The questions weren’t state machines. But like your experience, they boiled down to “I have some interesting experiences that feel kind of unique to me, is it possible you’ve had them too?” It was a mid level relatively seasoned person, but they admitted interviewing was kinda new. So it really came back to that “do you think we could experience a sort of cohort chemistry here” vetted by a pretty arbitrary set of “let’s find some geeky things to get connect about.” And like you, I’m not disappointed they chose to keep looking.