MSCI Cloud Engineer interview experience

The first call was a quick screen about my background and what motivated me to move, and it felt pretty straightforward. After that, interviews were scheduled with several people.

What threw me off was the mismatch: although I was interviewing for a cloud architect/engineer track, the panelists were effectively briefed in a way that led them to ask software-engineering questions unrelated to cloud. On multiple rounds I had to clarify that I wasn’t actually interviewing for what they thought I was interviewing for, and the confusion showed up on their side too. Once it became clear, they