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It was a very direct and straightforward process. I completed 4 interviews and a writing assignment, since my role involves a lot of writing and they expect high quality. The interviews included HR, the hiring Manager, someone for Regional/Culture assessment, and the CMO.

It was a quick and great interview process with friendly people. The process had 3 stages: First, a call with HR to go over the role and my CV. Then, a video call with the hiring manager which was followed by a test that I had to complete in one hour. The test involved reviewing a contract and drafting new clauses for it. Finally, a second video call with other members of the hiring team where I was asked more personal and personality questions. The questions and the test made sense for the role.

A recruiter reached out about the role. First, there was a prescreening where I had to write about my past search relevance work for different companies and my RESTFul API experience. This took about 10 hours to get right and also involved auditing Getty Images for search issues. The first interview was with a friendly person who discussed open roles, the job description, and my fit. The second interview, scheduled two weeks later, started late. The first interviewer asked about my background, and then the second interviewer, also late, joined and I had to repeat my experiences briefly. Then we did a coding exercise and a system design. The second interviewer then asked the LeetCode 'Trapping Water' question, but I only had 4 minutes left to solve this hard problem and could only provide pseudocode. I thought I did well, especially with the system design and my relevance expertise, but the next day I was told I was 'technically weak'.

So I had this first call with the recruiter and honestly, it was probably the worst interview experience I've ever had. The interviewer actually rescheduled the call like 5 minutes before it was supposed to start. When we finally got on the line, the whole thing felt super rushed. She didn't even bother to introduce herself, talk about the company, or explain the role. She just started asking me about my background, acting all smug like this company is so amazing and sought-after that there's nothing to even discuss. The format of pretty much every question was "tell me a time you..." just one after another. After the third one, it was obvious that my answers didn't really matter and the whole call was just a formality. It was pretty bad. I actually asked her like 4 questions about the job after the interview, and she couldn't answer a single one. She clearly didn't really grasp what she was asking me to talk about.