I had an initial technical interview over the phone using CoderPad. The call was an hour long. I imagine it went well since they wanted to follow up with more interviews.

I then had five more interviews. Five. A total of six for the whole process. Each one was at least an hour long.

• The second interview consisted of HR-type questions to find out how you jive with their "company values."
• The third was more conversational, where I was asked about my work experience.
• The fourth was another CoderPad exercise, similar to the first. I thought I did well on this.
• The fifth was another CoderPad exercise. I had this one after a full day of work and got tripped up on the problem, even though over the weekend I went back to the problem on my own and figured it out.
• The last interview was a design interview on a Miro board. This tests your architecture and design skills. I thought I did well on this.

The recruiter gave me a relatively quick rejection but did not give me any feedback. They even said not to ask for feedback.

This seems antithetical to one of their values: "Share openly, question respectfully, and once a decision is made, commit fully." I can't get better if you don't share with me why you didn't hire me.

While I don't see the need to have three CoderPad exercises when one would suffice, the problems were relevant to their domain, so they weren't just randomly picked off of LeetCode.

Everyone I spoke to was nice and treated me with respect.

Six to seven hours is a lot of one person's time. They could easily trim their process down to three interviews:

1. A conversational one about experience.
2. A "make sure you know how to code" interview.
3. A design interview.

From talking to folks, it sounds like they're aware that they are a feature factory, but they want to move away from that style of work. They have a Rails monolith that they are currently wrestling with.

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