Abnormal AI Software Engineer interview experience

In the HR conversation, they asked directly about salary expectations and asked me to share my current pay, even though they said they didn’t have a salary band handy for the UK role. The way they handled it felt unusually pushy and I didn’t really accept the premise that there would be no band when compensation is usually budgeted.

After that call, they said they’d get back to me. What I got instead was a rejection email stating they’d decided to move forward with other candidates. The whole thing left me feeling like the conversation had already been “scored” rather than treated like an