Applied on the J.P. Morgan portal and heard back from the hiring manager after a couple of weeks with details of a telephone interview with her colleague in NY. I thought it went well and received another call from her team a week later to attend an in-person meeting in London.

The interview took place in a breakout area, which was a little odd as other people were meeting around us. The interview was unstructured. A few technical Oracle questions could have been answered better by myself.

The hiring manager promised to call me the following week. I sent a thank you email, knowing the restrictions in the company about sending emails to personal accounts.

Followed up with a couple more emails and left two voicemails, but she never got back to me with any feedback. The time and cost of travel weren't cheap; a courtesy call would have been greatly appreciated, even if they weren't taking my application any further.

Nothing too taxing, but the DBA started right at the beginning of my CV asking technical questions from 25 years ago. This was very unexpected and threw me. He used up most of his time going over things that were largely irrelevant and didn't get to the latest work I had done.