I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks.

I really want to share my experience with this company after 6 interviews for this position, they ultimately said I don't have the number of years of experience that they want. Why they didn't cut it off after 1 interview if that was the reason is beyond me. I never even applied for this position, actually. Two recruiters called me and I spoke to HR as well. Why they even contacted me in the first place if what they saw on my resume was not enough, who knows. In fact, after some research of my own, they recently hired someone who just graduated this year with only a few months of relevant work experience for this same position. I have over 8 years of experience and this whole process was just very odd. So after that bogus reason, I replied to them.

The recruiter gave me more context and said they hired him so that they could make the interview process better but obviously it's still severely lacking. He also said they told him I did not know a lot from the technical side, and I'll admit there were some things I didn't know. But, I definitely answered a lot of their questions correctly. They even verbally said "you are correct" or "that's right". On top of that, if you really want to gauge someone's technical skills then make a lab where we can show you instead of ask questions from a list. They also said it SEEMED like I was only interested in the benefits but the following is my experience...

There are a lot of details I could provide, but here's a summary of what I experienced from interviews 4-6: 4th interview: First, I waited on Zoom for over an hour. Nobody called me or emailed me that they were going to be late. So I called, no answer, and then I emailed and then they rescheduled. About 30 minutes later the guy calls me to get on Zoom so I did. There was a part where I said I could research/Google real quick and he said something along the lines of “no, don’t worry” and moved on. But then proceeds to tell me that he didn't know anything about ABC when joining Cohesity, and now doesn’t know a bunch about XYZ at Cohesity and still has to ask and research.

So he openly admitted they hired him when he clearly didn't know something and didn't let me research, but yet that is a reason for them to not proceed with me. In addition, I did a lot of research and reading about Cohesity and I told him everything I knew when he asked. So I showed genuine interest in the company/product. I asked him what he liked, how long he has been there etc... 5th: He gave me a troubleshooting scenario, and I gave several steps on what I would check. He said that was correct, and he also said I was correct for several other things he asked me. Here's the funny part, is that their website says they're not trying to stump you and if you don't know something they'll work on it with you.

Well, these two technical interviews they didn't do any of that if I was indeed wrong on something. He did let me Google in this interview once when I asked, and that is ok as we all do it for this type of work. But again, they said I hardly knew anything and that is completely erroneous. I also told him what I know about Cohesity and asked what he likes etc... 6th: At this point, the last two must've told him I know about what the company does, what’s good about it, that I showed interest, how I did on the technical part etc... so that's why I'm here, right? Otherwise, why keep wasting everyone's time? So then I asked about the benefits and incentives and that's all it really was the whole time. I hardly talked during this interview.

He went off about the company benefits, how most startups make people rich etc... So it felt more like he was trying to persuade me to join, and he gave me irrelevant information that I didn’t really need to know. It's not so much they didn't hire me, I can live with that. It's just this whole process was terrible and the fact that they didn't value my time with all the phone calls and interviews, they gave false reasons, and I firmly believe something else is at play here as the reasons they claim are just not true. They need better cohesion during the interview process. Do yourself a favor and don't reply to the initial recruiters or waste your time interviewing here. If this review even helps one person that is all that matters. Best of luck to all.

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