I applied, and someone reached out for availability for a call. I assumed it was going to be a general "talent acquisition" type of call. It turned out to be with a Release Engineering Manager with a different name.

After what I believe was a successful interview, another interview was scheduled (outside of the availability I was prompted for before). This was another call with a different Release Engineer.

This process of receiving a random calendar invite without checking for availability, followed by a call with someone who wasn't the person who invited me, happened three more times. I have now met four people in Release Engineering.

It's now call number five. I finally get to meet the person scheduling these interviews. We discuss the role, how it's different from my current role, but it does include some coding and automation.

We are now about 4.5 hours into talking to Veeva when we discovered that the release engineering salary band range is a lie. I told them that I currently make near the upper end of their band, and they responded saying that if anything, I'll be given something closer to the middle and that almost no one makes the upper end. It felt bait-and-switch-y.

It doesn't feel like Veeva is respecting the candidate's time and isn't transparent about what they're looking for, given that the salary band is not accurately reflecting their hiring practices. With the five interviews I had with them, aside from the "let's talk about your history" question they always ask, the interviews were not significantly different from each other. Three of them asked "What is your five-year plan?" and "Why are you looking to leave your current employer?"

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?