This was one of the worst interview process I've ever had. The process took (with no exaggeration) 3.5 months. I was approached by a recruiter and had an initial chat. About one week later I had a technical discussion with a VP. After that...silence. Like complete silence for a solid month when I was approached again by the same recruiter. Despite saying that I'm still up for a job change, I got ghosted again, this time almost 2 months. After the ghosting period I went through two technical interviews (system design and algorithms). To be honest, the interviews were quite challenging, so I'll give them that. However, I had to wait more than one week after the second interview (algorithms) to receive a no.

Initial screening followed up with a fourty five minute leetcode style tech screen with a partner on a shared coding platform. Technicaly questions and discussions mutate as you solve them. After completing the question and follow-ons with the interviewer and receiving positive feedback, we chit-chatted about work for the remaining 20 minutes. A week later I received a canned response about not having technical depth and skills to complete the interview questions on time(what?!). The recruiter and company then ghost. I'm disappointed to have sunk interview time with a company which automates fabricated negative feedback.

Poor experience, mainly due to a manager J in London. To avoid technical deep dives, interviewers asked me to build a design for a simple problem, but were not capable of discussing the solution in depth. Even a small deviation frightened them and was hard for them to perceive. Only midway I realized that the interviewers were sitting in their laptops between myself and the whiteboard and were following the solution from some blog post. It was expected that I should repeat in words everything from the post as the only possible design. Sad that the time was spent on this process. But lucky that I met J at the interview so this hire never happened!