I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks.

I had an initial call with an internal recruiter, followed by a first-round interview with a backend engineer. Unfortunately, the engineer seemed largely disinterested from the start. He remarked that he "hoped I prepared" for the interview, asked that I keep my questions at the end to a minimum due to time constraints, and requested that I focus on just one project from my previous experience for all parts of the interview to save time. Thankfully, as I began discussing my experience, the tone of the conversation shifted and the interaction became more pleasant. That said, the interviewer still posed a few puzzling questions—such as asking, "Wouldn’t you prefer to write real code?"—in reference to work I had done using Temporal.

Ultimately, I was not selected to move on to the next round. The feedback I received indicated that the project I spoke about did not demonstrate the specific experience the role required, despite it being within the financial services domain. In hindsight, I should have pushed to highlight a second project that may have aligned more closely with the expectations, though it felt as though a decision may have already been made.

Talk about a recent project you've worked on.