This was one of the only interviews I've come out of and immediately knew I would decline, even if presented an offer.

The scheduling experience was pretty frustrating. I was asked via email for availability two weeks out. After not hearing anything for over a week, I emailed the recruiter. Then, I received an email with a full-day interview schedule just two days later. Of course, as someone with a current job, I can't just drop everything for a full day with only two days' notice. So again, I had to go through the same exercise of providing availability two weeks out.

For the actual interviews, it wasn't clear if anyone I talked to actually liked working at Indeed. There was very little passion or excitement. The interviews are also apparently federated across the entire company, and (as far as I know) I didn't talk to a single person on the hiring team. Everyone was from a different team and org. As a job seeker, I would absolutely never take a position where I wouldn't at least talk to the hiring manager. Preferably, I would talk with one or two people on the actual team as well.

The questions were generally not super complicated. The programming exercise was a little frustrating, as it easily could have been done as a take-home exercise rather than a middle-of-the-day "interview." There was no, nor was there expected to be, back-and-forth about the question or solution. It was just, "Hi, go implement this, and we'll see you later."

Overall, it was definitely the lack of connection or excitement from any of the interviewers that really made the whole experience not worthwhile.

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