I have heard many good things about how Costco treats its employees, but that doesn't mean they have to treat interviewees this badly. I was interviewed for the E-commerce team.

The recruiter contacted me in September and scheduled a 30-minute phone interview for the following week. I was called by one of the developers. Most of the questions were about SQL transactions and debugging; one can only answer them if they have working experience.

The recruiter scheduled the interview for 30 minutes, but the interviewer wanted to extend it for an hour, and I was okay with it. Overall, the interview went really well.

After this, I followed up with the recruiter every Monday to see if there were any updates from the team. After a few weeks, I heard from the recruiter that the team was interested in bringing me in for an on-site, but God knows when.

During Thanksgiving, I emailed the recruiter that I would be in Seattle if they wanted to do the on-site. I was replied that the team wanted to do an on-site interview on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. This interview was with the team, and I was told that if I did well, I would be invited on Wednesday to meet the director.

On Tuesday, I was interviewed by a team of 3 developers. Most of the questions were scenario-based. I loved the interview with the director; he was very calm and really interested in knowing about me and the kind of work I had done in the past.

After the on-site, it was again the waiting game. I followed up every Monday, and I was told that their website was having issues during Thanksgiving and the team was busy fixing them and didn't have time to make a decision.

Even the New Year passed by, still no response. At one point, I literally felt, "What kind of a company takes this long?"

Finally, this week I heard that I didn't get the job because they don't want to sponsor. I feel that this is very rude; they should have known these sponsorship details way ahead in the process.

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