Avanade interview questions

I interviewed with 3 different people via phone and then a one-on-one with a Regional Manager. An initial phone interview (non-technical) and then two technical interviews with two different technical people. I did well on the phone interviews and when I had a teleconference call with the Regional Manager for about an hour, I felt that he was expecting someone younger and I received an email indicating that it may take several months before an appropriate position was available and that they would keep in touch. I never heard from them again. I saw the same position posted the next day again. They also use a background company that asks questions that would definitely indicate your age (such as date of college graduation, date of birth, etc.) which I don't answer prior to an offer since a company might have a propensity to discriminate against certain protected classes. I suspect that they might be one of these types of companies.

Technical Screening was good. Two phone screening each for about an hour. People interviewed were nice and friendly and professional. They tried to get a feel of knowledge & concept not the syntax or version. If your answer/response is not exactly what they have in mind, I found them helping and not intimidating. I contrast it with one of the interview I had at one of the huge financial institution in NYC where interviewers were way too junior, with hard to understand accent, stuck in the weeds and kept splitting the hairs. Right in the interview I fired them (mentally) and lost my interest in the job they had. Executive I met was professional (stiff neck) but pleasant. There we did not talk technical or the money. Had a coffee and discussions on technology trends, IT service industry and Avanade’s positioning.