I saw a team member sharing the link to a job opening that was unlisted on the recruitment website. I exchanged a couple of messages with him and applied.

Two weeks after applying, a project manager emailed me asking about my availability to schedule a call. My reply to that message and my follow-up seven days later were never attended. At this point, I thought I had been ghosted.

One month later, a recruiter started a new thread. I had an initial call with a recruiter, one code exercise with an engineer, a "life story" interview with another recruiter, and in the last phase, I had two pair programming exercises, one with an engineer and one with a data scientist, and a deep dive conversation with an engineer. I think the deep dive was sub-optimal; the conversation revolved around one project I had worked on, and I found it hard to highlight all my relevant experience based solely on that one project.

The main pain point was when I asked for a description of the style of one of the interviews. I had asked the same question to three recruiters who couldn't answer but said they were forwarding it. I received no response from them. Only on the fourth attempt, when I contacted a recruitment lead, did I get a response.

From the recruiter's first email to the last, it took two months.

Talk about one interesting project you had worked on.