I applied online and was connected with the recruiter. She explained the role and the company and I had a good sense of what the company and the hiring manager need. I was next connected with the hiring manager for a phone screen and later received an invite to talk with the Security Architect. It was during the call with the Security Architect that everything went sideway. He asked a lot of questions on application security rather than security and compliance, the later is what I applied for. Although I have knowledge on both infrastructure and application security stack, these are not my focus area and certainly not what I applied for. Needless to say, I received a rejection email within a day and the email actually specified that they were looking for someone with deep application security experiences. I checked Upgrade career site afterwards and the position that I have applied for is no longer there! The title and job description for the role I have applied has completely changed (I have PDF-ed the job description before Upgrade changed it). As a matter of fact, the previous job description did not state that Upgrade was looking for an application security engineer. If Upgrade is going to change the job requirements, they should at least let the candidate know ahead so that they don’t have to waste their time spending an hour on a phone screen for a role that they did not applied or, in my case, don’t want to take. Seeing how the hiring manager / Security team can just change the job requirements mid-flight during the interview cycle, WITHOUT letting the candidate know, is very disheartening. In a way, I am glad I didn’t get the job because I certainly will not want to work for a Security team that is unsure on what is their resource requirements, especially when the team is tasked to protect financial information.