Applied through a referral in early December. Received a response after 2-3 weeks; the initial response was confusing, but they were able to clarify when I asked them about it, and we had an initial phone screen in early January.

Since I have 10 years' experience, the initial phone screen was mostly just selling me on the company, not attempting any weeding-out questions.

Had an hour-long video chat technical interview the next week. Didn’t grill me on whiteboard-style problems, but did ask domain-specific questions to determine my level of expertise in the fields that group was looking for.

I was rejected for the position. The recruiter I was in contact with was not able to provide feedback, but I emailed the technical interviewer directly, and they kindly offered some feedback. Had I not been rejected, the next step would have been an on-site interview.

Overall, once the holidays were wrapped up, the process advanced rapidly, and I felt it was respectful and professional.

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