My profile: 4 years of experience in various AWS tools, Python, Spark, SQL, and data engineering works.

Applied through Glassdoor and LinkedIn simultaneously.

Subsequently, I got a call from the recruiter, and the first round of interviews was scheduled. I got through it.

Second round (with Senior Data Engineer/Team Lead): I got through it.

Third round: with Manager.

Then, I got a call from the recruiter stating that someone else was hired for the position they were hiring for.

The recruiter, at the same time, gave me a choice whether I wanted to go for the Data Platform Engineer - II job, as they found my profile and skills to be relevant to that role as well.

I went for it, and another managerial round happened. Within 15 minutes, I was told that they wanted an expert guy. The role was Dev Ops + Ops in Data Engineering.

However, if you look at the job descriptions for Data Engineer-II and Data Platform Engineer-II, they are almost the same.

Finally, I received the generic reply: "proceeding with another candidate" or so... End!

After that, the recruiter also didn't pick up the call.

Four rounds meant approximately 4 hours of my precious time were completely wasted. Pathetic experience!

Advice to Chegg: Get your hiring team and managers in sync. Also, try to respect the time of candidates. It's not a playground.

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