I had 3 telephone based interviews as I was interviewing for a Dublin based role. I felt that I had built a good rapport with the interviewers and had no difficulty with the interview questions. I also built a test application and embedded the New Relic agent and was able to talk through the process during the interview which the interviewer said he was very impressed with. The final stage was to meet with one of the VPs and this is where the experience went from pleasant to unacceptably unprofessional. I was told that I was through to the final stage (as was the recruiter I had been contacted through) however the company simply cut off all communication and ignored my emails and voicemails. I mailed both the main person I had interviewed with and the HR representative but did not get a reply or an acknowledgement. The recruiter was also unable to get a response from HR. I can understand if I have not been successful in an application or even if business conditions change the the role becomes unavailable but simply shutting down communications and ignoring voice and emails is downright rude and really unprofessional.

Being contacted originally via LinkedIn by an internal recruiter, I have been through two initial screening phone conversations with the recruiters, then an interview by two sales engineer, and finally but not least, a full afternoon of interviews with a Sales Manager, the global Sales Engineering Director and the EMEA Sales Engineering Director. It was followed by a Presentation on Technology Product of my choice and questions and answers around this. I had also a long skype interview with the EMEA Sales Engineering director previous to the last one. I have found the people nice, respectful and genuinely interested all the way. They managed to change my perception and what the company is trying to do, even though I had read some reviews here after initial contact that drew a not so positive view of the Dublin situation. Overall the interview process was a modern approach, I had experienced once only before with another company, where everything is planned as an entire process/project which allow to weigh in the various variables that makes a good match for both parties, rather than the simple A to B to C process, where if you fail at B but are really a good match for C and A, you are stopped, end of. I have found the last round very hard but very useful, where I had to finally ask myself some really important questions about what I really want, where I am good at and where I am not so strong and need to progress. Unpleasant at times but help a lot in making a big decision to move. I have also found some interesting depth with two keys professionals, that can read at professional and human level very level. This is important and gives a lot of confidence in a future ability to work with direct managers. they have the human factor as well as the important business strategy to build a team for a global success.