[rg111]

> I got an interview I had end it and apologize as what they were looking for was a data engineer.

100% happened to me once. Wasted hours of my time.

> Some companies are just tacking irrelevant ML and AI stuff onto job descriptions.

Some of them do this deliberately. I have seen this practice in companies targeting junior roles and fresh out of college grads. They hire them with shit pay and promise them ML experience, and then make them do non ML stuff.

[lawlessone]

Luckily in my case it was very short. The first tech question they asked me was about the how to move all a companies data from old gov systems to a data lake. We both got a quick lesson really. All polite.

The second bait and switch example though went on a lot longer. I had an off feeling about it from the first call.

One guy on call was stifling a laugh the whole time.

They made sure to emphasize they we're offering me a lot of experience, doing me favor essentially.

When they gave me the offer they also requested I send them over a professional photograph of myself. Maybe that's normal in some countries but to me it was the red flag that finally made me notice all the other red flags.