Keeping Commerce Human, but definitely not the interview process.

I've interviewed for two Engineering Manager roles with Etsy over the past year. For one of these, I made it to an architecture interview; for the other, the role was filled after my phone screen.

The communication with their recruitment team is awful. Getting one of them to respond to an email is difficult and frustrating. Even when they ask you a question, like your availability for a hiring manager interview, they don't acknowledge your response.

I needed to email them again with updated availability because the time slots I originally communicated passed by without me hearing back from them. One of their recruiters no-showed my phone screen because they scheduled it on a company holiday.

The emails I eventually received often lacked context and were clearly automated from their internal system. For the role that I made it closest to, I was told I was still a very strong candidate and they wanted me to apply to other management roles. But when I made suggestions, I was ghosted.

Apparently, it's nice working as an Engineer at Etsy if you get past this, but this chaotic hiring process lacks respect. From my perspective as a manager, I would never want candidates applying to my roles to experience what I've experienced with Etsy (twice now).

Standard interview process.

This typically includes a phone screen, a hiring manager screen, and multiple phases beyond that.