Last November, I received an offer from Klarna Berlin after successfully completing lengthy interview stages. The interviews were fairly easy, consisting of a LeetCode challenge, an intelligence test, system design, live coding, and behavioral and team-fit assessments.

The recruiter then asked for my personal documents to draft a contract. They also conducted my background check, which I passed without issue.

After a few weeks, the recruiter emailed me, stating that due to restructuring and a hiring freeze, I would have to wait. Whenever I contacted my recruiter, they assured me that an update would be provided on Friday. However, this was consistently delayed, first to Tuesday and then postponed again to the following Friday.

I became very frustrated with this situation, especially since I had rejected other offers during this time. This was a clearly poor candidate experience. Why conduct interviews and waste candidates' time when there isn't sufficient budget to hire people?

I started looking for new opportunities, having had enough of the misleading information I was receiving. They expect candidates to understand their leadership principles, yet it seems they themselves are not adhering to them.

TLDR: Worst candidate experience Low salaries

How have you used Klarna leadership principles in your job before?