Note: this was for a dev position on the marketing team, not the product team.

I got a request for a phone interview with a recruiter after 5 days of applying, and the phone interview was about 30 mins.

Second phone interview was with the hiring manager, about 30-45 mins asking about previous projects, background questions, and some behavioral questions like "how would your teammates describe you".

Two weeks later was a video interview that was supposed to have been a 45 min-1hr tech screen, but it ended up being a disorganized behavioral interview. The interviewer was completely unprepared, and mentioned that he hadn't really gone through my resume. He wasn't even aware of what step in the interview process I was in. He seemed indifferent.

Due to his lack of preparation, there was a lot of awkward silence between questions as he was trying to think of them on the spot, and he even turned to other interviewer a few times and said "hmmm... well do YOU have any questions for this candidate?". At the end, he said that the tech screen was complete and said they'd be in touch.

The on-site was a 4 hour, full-loop with 5 people.

One of the engineers in this loop didn't really do a tech screen either, it was mostly behavioral... what are some things I like to work on, what have I worked on in the past, etc. He was also unprepared -- came in and said he didn't really have the time to go through my resume, and he was coming up with questions on the fly during the interview.

While talking about processes and new tech/frameworks, he seemed to have a very can't-do attitude about things, and didn't engage in conversation when I mentioned different programming paradigms and the differences between certain frameworks. I knew I wouldn't be learning much from him, and after this first round I already knew I didn't want the job.

Each interviewer came in and asked some behavioral questions. The majority of them had not gone through my resume.

It was super odd that throughout the entire interview process I was not asked to code or whiteboard anything once.

It's disrespectful to a candidate's time if interviewers don't even review a candidate's resume prior to the interview. Strolling in and conducting the interview in a nonchalant and unprepared manner does not reflect well on Smartsheet. Although the interviewers were fairly nice, the lack of preparation was stunning to me for a company of this size.

Your interviewers should go through interview training and be prepared. When you interview candidates, the candidates are also interviewing your employees to see if they can grow and learn from them. I have no idea how you're supposed to vet candidates accurately and carefully if you keep asking the same generic "what was the most challenging project you worked on, and what did you learn from it" ... type of behavioral questions.

Tell me about a time when you had to solve a problem creatively

Tell me about a time when you disagreed with someone

What are some new technologies that you want to learn more about

Where would you like to be in 5 years?