I applied online. The process took 1 day.

The intro call was a normal 30-minute HR screen:

• Walked through experience building an observability stack with Grafana and Prometheus
• Discussed comp
• The recruiter laid out the full pipeline — up to six stages, roughly 1.5-2 months end to end, three separate live-coding rounds totaling around 5.5 hours, one of them mandatory in Go

Heavy, but that's a process design issue, not the complaint here.

The actual complaint: the recruiter's own live read on the call was "most likely a yes" for moving to Stage 2. The next day, I got a rejection email. The stated reason was that it wasn't a fit "for this particular role... rather than anything about your ability" — no further detail, and no technical round of any kind was ever held to test that read one way or the other.

I don't expect every process to advance. I do expect that if your own recruiter tells someone on the call they're most likely through, and you reverse that within 24 hours with a vague fit excuse and zero technical evaluation, you own that mismatch instead of hiding behind a form phrase.

Tell me about your two past jobs' most relevant contributions.