I applied online. The process took 1 week.

My experience interviewing for a Solution Architect role at EvenUp was deeply disappointing because it felt like a sterile, scripted exercise rather than the high-level dialogue I was led to believe would take place. Although I asked for the full hiring pipeline upfront during initial recruiter outreach, they withheld the existence of a high-effort take-home case study until the end of the call with a member of the SA team, where the interviewer leaned heavily on a rigid STAR rubric and was clearly unprepared to discuss actual architectural challenges.

Because of their lack of preparation, I found myself doing all of the heavy lifting to keep the conversation substantive, yet they remained stuck in a cycle of basic behavioral questions. The requirement to sign an NDA before we even discussed the technical scope felt more like a containment strategy for their internal bottlenecks rather than a standard business practice.

Between the inability of the interviewer to engage in a genuine, off-the-cuff exchange and the obvious bait-and-switch regarding their process, it became clear that they are more interested in harvesting intellectual labor than vetting senior talent. I withdrew from the process because this entire experience was a perfect example of why modern hiring practices have become so broken, extractive, and disconnected from the human element of professional recruitment.

Every question asked by both the recruiter and the Solution Architect team member was a basic, scripted STAR rubric question rather than a substantive, role-specific inquiry.