As a candidate for a principal/lead engineering position, I was surprised about lack of interest and slowness in the process. It sometimes took a week between their messages and I had to prod them from my side to push the process along. At end, after seven weeks in the pipeline, the recruiter said I was "in a rush" after asking for feedback after a few days. Having come from leading the operations engineering team (with product responsibilities) at an operations-heavy consumer goods company with a Rails backbone (and a successful exit), I thought I would be a great fit. I completed the take home and then a screen-share coding exercise and got the canned "sorry not a good fit" email. I wouldn't change anything about how I performed, but I have no idea where I went wrong as we worked through the problems with no conflict. Interview was very technical skills based and there weren't many opportunities to show any non-technical skills.