TL;DR: Four recruiters and two schedulers (high turnover, apparently), over a month to schedule interviews, interviewer 15 minutes late to a 45-minute interview, two personality interviews asking the same questions, and ghosted by the recruiter team after the interviews.

I was contacted by a recruiter who informed me I could only apply for backend or frontend positions, even though neither of those roles matched my skill set. I applied for a backend position, completed a phone screen, and passed. Subsequently, I moved on to interviewing for a senior backend position.

During this process, I had four different recruiters assigned to me. It took four weeks between the phone screen and the scheduling of the full-length interview.

The full-length interview consisted of five interviews: one design, two coding, and two personality.

• The design interview was as expected based on online descriptions.
• The first personality interview was standard, covering topics like conflict resolution and learning from mistakes.
• The first coding interviewer was 15 minutes late to the 45-minute interview, sounded robotic, and disconnected multiple times. While waiting for her to rejoin the call, my attempts to contact the scheduling recruiter via email and text received no response.
• For the second coding interview, I was told I had to use Python, despite the recruiter initially stating I could use any programming language.
• In the last personality interview, I was asked the exact same questions as in the previous one. I suspect this is because they are reading from a script. I'm unsure why two interviewers were needed to ask the same set of questions.

At this point, the interview process concluded over 1.5 months ago. I have not heard from any recruiter regarding the status of my application. The company's application portal still lists the position as open. Essentially, I have been ghosted. A week ago, a random Facebook/Meta employee called me, asking me to open CoderPad without prior notice. I assume she mistook my number for the person she was scheduled to interview that day.