Terrible experience. The process took 3 weeks. I had an initial phone screening where they asked me typical experience questions. I asked about the salary range and was told a range I was comfortable with, so I decided to pursue them. Then I went through all the interview sessions, including:

• A basic coding challenge
• A paired programming exercise in Ruby/Rails
• A design interview
• A final hiring manager interview

After all that, they told me the position had already been filled, but that they were still interviewing me to see if I could be at a higher level than I had experience for (not setting me up for success). Then they told me I could potentially be hired at a later date if budgets allow (making me wait on this 'maybe' scenario). And during my wrap-up recruiter call, they confirmed the salary range with me, and their base was now all of a sudden MUCH LOWER than they initially told me weeks ago.

I was very upset as this wasted my time. I didn't get an offer (even though they said they were impressed with me, but can't hire yet), and they never responded to any of my follow-up emails.

I asked if I could get a date range of maybe when they'd be hiring again (silence). Asked if I could get my final questions answered (silence). Gave constructive and positive feedback for their interview process (silence).

I felt like they handled it very unprofessionally, which is disappointing since their engineers seemed like great people and their company has a great product.

• Design a machine and how to handle multiple input/outputs.
• Ruby/Rails app to migrate and fetch data and display in different formats (solo and pair session).
• Design systems interview.