I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day.

The process is:

• A TA screening call
• 3 live pair-coding rounds
• A technical discussion at the very end

I withdrew during the first call, about 2 minutes in. 2 things stood out. An AI notetaker joined and a video recording started without anyone asking for my consent. And the call had no introductions at all: no background from either side, no description of the team or the role, nothing to sell an opportunity I would be committing weeks of my time to.

The recruiter went straight into listing the interview stages, and it was clear he had not read my CV beforehand. That last part though was the last straw, because the 1st coding round is done in a language I do not use day to day, which my CV would have made obvious.

Being asked to sit 3 LeetCode-style pair-coding rounds before anyone has discussed my actual experience is not a process built to assess a senior engineer, and putting the technical discussion last confirms it. Glassdoor had already warned me the pipeline was long and hostile. 2 minutes was enough to see why.

How comfortable are you in Go?