I applied online. The process took 6 weeks.

I applied online and got an email within a week asking to answer a few questions. I replied the next day. Then I heard nothing. Out of nowhere, after a month, I got an email asking to schedule a phone interview. In the interview, I was asked mostly behavioral and situational questions, and nothing too hard. Then I was told that the interviewer would discuss notes with the team and schedule a technical phone screen interview with another guy. I was dumbfounded. Why didn't you take the guy with you so you could have asked both technical and behavioral questions and could have gotten a much better understanding of the candidate? Isn't it better to understand the person at the same time in both technical and personal aspects? I never experienced such a long and unpredictable process.

Save your time and, most importantly, respect the time, feelings, and work of the candidate. You are not an MNC, and you are not making a spacecraft which will carry humans to Mars. Don't behave so picky and act like you are a big multinational company with hundreds of thousands of employees. Startups should work at a fast pace and should be able to make decisions fast and efficiently, not going through a million processes just to make you feel that you are so much more important and select the right or perfect person. I applied because I was passionate about their work and thought I wouldn't have to go through a long process like MNCs with no communication with the candidates afterward and such a slow, multistep process. Let the people know the result and reduce the time of the process.

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