The interview experience was a very long process.

It started with a phone interview, which went well and was mostly about my experience. I was told I would hear back in a day or two, but it took much longer.

I was finally contacted to come in for an on-site interview. This was about 3 hours and was extremely technical. During the interview, it was a pleasant experience. They were good people (overall, I worked with 6 different engineers) and it felt not a whole lot like an interview but more like a team. They corrected me on some of my mistakes, and I corrected them on some of their mistakes. It was exhausting, but that was fun.

Again, I was told I would hear in the next day or so. A week or two went by, and finally, they said they were "going another direction."

I thought that was the end of it, but then I was contacted by the recruiter again and asked if I was interested in a very similar job. I said I was and therefore had a video interview, which was fine. The interviewer was a very good guy, but he did it at his house (I blame Qualtrics for that one and not the interviewer), which was distracting with his child crying and wanting attention. It seemed very uncomfortable for him.

After a week of waiting again on the recruiter, they wanted me to come in for another 3-hour interview on-site (even though my previous one was just a month or two before).

At that point, I didn't like how they didn't value my time. Getting to their offices takes about 3 hours each way for me, which they were aware of. That's 3 + 3 + 3 = 9 hours that I had already spent with the first interview, and then just a month or two after, they wanted me to do it again.

I forgot to turn down the interview and about a month later received an email with a job offer.

This is on top of being told after the video and on-site interview that the last step is talking with the CIO (I think that was the title, either way, it wasn't a technical interview or a very lengthy one), so it doesn't look like that process exists anymore/is followed.

Overall, during the interviews, it was an enjoyable, difficult experience, but working with HR and the recruiters was a ridiculous experience and an absolutely broken process. I was very excited at the prospect of working at Qualtrics, but the interview put me off of their company as a whole, which is very unfortunate.

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