The hiring process is a complete mess, lacking any transparency and respect for people's time. Their website says 6 to 8 weeks, but I gave up somewhere after the 10th and took another offer.

I passed seven of God knows how many stages, but after each stage, you get no feedback for 10 days or more, so at no point do you have any idea where you stand. I politely asked a few times for an approximate timeline, but of course, received no response.

The interviews themselves were normal; I liked the people I met. However, the recruitment process makes me think they really don't care whether they hire people or not – it's some kind of research or experiment.

Ten weeks and seven stages to get what's pretty much a standard or below-standard salary, and a normal contract with a probation period, mind you. It was so drawn out and weird that, at some point, my wife started joking I was interviewing for the CIA.

Anyway, a note to the recruiters: this is disrespectful and unprofessional as hell. The company has a reputation as a good employer, which is perhaps why people play along, but that's only up to a point.

The software-related questions were normal, but I was asked to explain how I implemented Klarna's leadership principles.

How about you implement them in recruitment, though?