tl;dr: Awesome recruiter, engineers might have been having a bad day, and I ended up being lied to. Not the greatest interview process I've experienced, but your mileage may vary.

You start off by completing a long, extended response questionnaire on their website before you submit your application. This takes a little less than an hour and helps them cherry pick people with the most advantageous skillsets. Very smart move on their part.

Several weeks later, I was contacted by their talent recruiter. He sent me a link to book a time, and he was booked solid for the first two weeks, so we had to wait a while to talk. On the call, he was extremely professional and nice to talk to. He told me about the company and asked me a few questions about my previous work experience, as well as some beginner-level technical questions. They have a wonderful recruiter.

I passed that and went to the technical skills interview, where I was paired with two engineering managers. While one was very kind, the other seemed standoffish and uninterested (maybe he was having a bad day). He also said that he "should've read the recruiter's notes beforehand, but didn't feel like doing it." I have a lot of interview anxiety, so this (combined with the standoffishness) caught me off guard and sent me into a downward spiral for the rest of the interview.

I was also led to believe that the technical skills interview would be covering "technical skills", so their questions caught me off guard: they were broad, open-ended questions about working with business and software engineering teams.

At the end of this section of the interview, they told me that my next steps were to complete a four-hour project, and that they'd email me the instructions. I waited for this email for several days (putting actual offers from other companies on hold) and then received an email that they were no longer moving forward with my application.

I felt this was unprofessional – being lied to is never a good part of the interview process.

After giving them several hours of my time and progressing to a late-stage interview, the rejection email also said that "they can't give feedback on my application at this time". I understand that they're busy, but that left a bad taste in my mouth.

Based on this interview process, I'm not sure if I'd recommend them to other engineers. But I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt and say that I might've just had some bad luck.

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