I had a similar experience to one of the posts listed previously (and I wish I had read it before I had my interview): I had an initial call with a Recruiter that went as expected. I was told I would speak to the Director and a newly hired Manager in my next round, and that at The Knot, "they didn't do technical interviews with coding challenges or whiteboarding, and I didn't need to prepare for anything technical." So I came prepared to talk about my current job, tech stack, etc. (Spoiler: I wasn't asked about any of that.) I don't know if it was the vague, extremely broad architectural back-end questions (that were a bit irrelevant for a Senior Engineer Job if I'm being honest--I would save those types of questions for an Architect position, or even a Managerial one if you're trying to justify the cost of switching your tech stack to shareholders, etc), or if I was caught off guard because I wasn't prepared for a literal oral exam about topics I haven't given much thought to in years, but all-in-all it was an awkward experience where I felt ill-prepared and knew I wouldn't get invited to the next round as such. The Manager asked mostly React questions that were actually relevant, and treated me like a normal human, so that part of the interview felt aligned to how a technical interview should run. I don't know if the Director was pulled in because the Manager was new, but I honestly don't think it's beneficial to include Directors in the interview process for positions like this--maybe for Managers, but definitely not Individual Contributors. I'm shocked he even had the bandwidth. I wasn't asked about my current job, my day-to-day, the kinds of projects I work on, examples of problem solving, etc, aside from some behavioral questions meant to determine if I was a "team player" or not. Instead, I felt that the Director made up his mind (negatively) about me from the very beginning. I'm not sure if TKWW is a misogynistic workplace, but it definitely feels like one. While the interview experience wasn't great and it was a bit of a bummer that I wasn't given another opportunity to prove myself, I'm glad I dodged a bullet if it's a toxic environment. If I felt unwelcome as a female engineer in the interview process--I can't even imagine what the actual workplace must feel like for female engineers.