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I had an initial call with HR for a UX role that started out normally. The recruiter walked through the position details, salary expectations, and travel requirements. When we reached the part of the conversation where I was supposed to talk through my experience, the recruiter said they had to jump to another meeting and didn’t want me to rush. They told me they would call me back at 12:45 to continue. 12:45 came and went. No call. I emailed afterward to reschedule and received no response. The following day I called and left a message. Again, no response. Things happen and schedules change, but setting a specific callback time and then completely ghosting a candidate shows a lack of professionalism and basic respect for someone’s time. If the role was no longer a fit or priorities changed, a quick email would have taken less than a minute. Instead, the process ended with silence. Candidates invest time preparing and making themselves available for interviews. The least a company can do is follow through on the commitments they make during the process.

The hiring process took about a month and had four steps, starting with the recruiter chat. It wrapped up with a panel interview, where I met with two people. I figured I'd hear back after the New Year, accounting for the holidays, but I didn't. I followed up with the recruiter a bunch of times after the break, but got nothing. Then I reached out to one of the panel interviewers, and only then did the recruiter tell me the job went to someone internal. This was super annoying because they reached out to me on LinkedIn, I didn't even apply. My main issue is that after getting to the final stage and putting in a lot of work over a long time, it's only professional to get some kind of communication about what happened, and in a reasonable timeframe. Honestly, this was the worst interview experience I've ever had.

So I went through a bunch of interviews for this role. It started with an initial chat, then there was a take-home project I had to do, and finally a panel interview. The interviews themselves were pretty good and everyone was professional. But, after I spent a lot of time on the take-home project, which I also presented, I just never heard back. I even followed up and still got nothing. I get that not everyone is a fit, but ghosting someone after all that feels really unprofessional and not cool, especially when they claim to care about their employees. It totally ruined what seemed like a decent experience at first.

It was a pretty standard interview experience. First, I had a behaviorial chat with a Senior Software Engineer. A couple days later, I got an email to do a Codility test online, which had two problems that weren't too tough. After that, my recruiter called, saying they liked my Codility solutions and wanted to set up a final interview. This last interview was with an Engineering manager, and it was mostly behaviorial. We went over my Codility solutions and they asked about my thinking and potential edge cases. About a week after that, I got another call from my recruiter with an offer. They were really good at communicating. Most of the interviews focused on my past experience, how I deal with challenges, and just getting to know me. The only really technical parts were the online Codility test and the quick review of my solutions and thought process. They seemed to really value the person behind the technical skills.