I applied for a senior software engineer position in a specialized field (something like AI, for example) on the company's website. The position was a strong match with my experience.

Two months later (which was probably a red flag), I received a semi-automatic email from the recruiter asking for my availability for a phone screen.

I replied because the position was very interesting to me. We then spoke on the phone briefly. By the way, the recruiter called an hour and a half before the expected time, likely a mistake due to time zone differences.

The recruiter was nice on the phone. She explained the role and told me I would have an interview with a member of the team I applied for.

Shortly after the call, I received a calendar link for setting up the interview. In the meantime, I received an offer (after all, I had been interviewing with other companies for several weeks).

I sent an email to the recruiter with my availability and informed her that I had received an offer and my time was constrained by a pending offer. She didn't reply.

However, the interview was set up by a recruiter coordinator with the lead of the team I applied for.

We spoke for almost an hour on a video call. My interviewer was nice and friendly; it was more of a discussion without any coding questions.

He started the interview by saying he liked my resume (which seemed honest), and we discussed the role. He asked some questions on the subject, nothing difficult; it was more of a conversation. He explained the challenges of the job, and we spoke about that. He also described the team working on it at Unity.

At the end of the interview, he told me again that he liked my resume, since I have a PhD and research experience in the field, and he asked if I had other offers.

I told him I did and that the sooner the better for setting up further interviews if they wanted to move forward with me. He acknowledged this, and once again, I believe it was honest.

Then, nothing...

Four days later, I emailed the recruiter and asked for feedback on my interview (I had pending offers with not much time left).

She didn't reply to my email, so I figured I had been ghosted. This was especially disappointing because I believed the first interview went well.

A few days after that, I saw a new post from my recruiter on a social network with a link to the position I had applied for.

Then I was 100% sure I had been rejected and ghosted. Obviously, I misread how my interview went, but I still had better hopes with Unity, expecting at least an automatic rejection email.

This is surprising, especially after reading other experiences with Unity on this site. Overall, the process took almost three months and ended up with me being ghosted.

A discussion on the position and related subjects.

No coding test at this point.