I interviewed for the Principal Architect - Microservices role at DHL IT Services in Prague. The interview process is designed to extract free labour and consultation from the candidates. This ghost job has already been advertised for more than 10 months, but DHL continues to blatantly abuse the hiring process to get free technical advice from hopeful candidates, for improving their main website; DHL.com. I was asked to solve an instability problem affecting DHL's website. Asked to suggest new application design, technologies, branching model, release process, and cloud platforms.
I made a complete system architecture diagram covering the full flow from ingress on Akamai and processing on Microsoft Azure, with external API calls to AEM Cloud and Adobe Identity Management Service (IMS). I also gave a detailed description of each microservice, frontend, backend, technology selection, and branching model.
The team manager loved it, and said at the final interview that I did really well on the technical assessment. However, one of the more senior managers had a bad day. After the interview the recruiter gaslighted and lied. She claimed that I was "not technical enough". Her words directly contradicted the team manager. To this day, DHL still continues this HR scam to trick job applicants to work for free.