HireView, Recruiter call, HM call to check background, and a final loop of 4-5 interviews with the entire team.

I honestly wouldn't want to waste my time interviewing with the company again. I found certain aspects of the interview process quite unprofessional.

The recruiter asked questions similar to the ones asked in the HireView (Why make the candidate shell out additional time for the HireView interview then?). One of interviewers came totally unprepared for the interview, to a point where a couple of his questions were wrong. It looked like he was given a couple of questions to ask, and he himself wasn’t sure of the answers to some of them. The rest of the interviewers and the manager were quite nice.

The saddest and the most annoying part was that the recruiter did not respond to any of my follow up emails after the final round, and I received an automated email of rejection after 4 weeks. It's just soul crushing to do that to a candidate who has invested so much time in the company.

I understand that most companies do not give constructive feedback since they interview a lot of people regularly, but to send out an automated mail of rejection sends out a totally different message. It’s almost as if they do not value or respect the candidate’s time.

And this is not the first time I experienced this. I interviewed with the company once before, and the recruiter at that time treated me similarly. He completely ghosted me after the final interview and sent out an automated mail of rejection.

As a software engineer, I understand the need for automation. But, they should know that responding to a candidate shouldn’t be a part of that process. They should be morally obligated to inform the candidate about the outcome of the interview.

The process included questions based on technologies mentioned in the job description and a coding challenge for which LeetCode would suffice. I wouldn't consider the interviews particularly hard.