A recruiter reached out to me and set up an initial call. After that, he sent a technical assignment to review a PR on a repository. The assignment was very easy. They responded to me after two days without giving me any details that they decided not to proceed. The recruiter did not give any details which team they are hiring. When is the starting date or what are the qualifications.

I participated in an interview process for an Engineering Manager role. They immediately sent a fairly extensive take-home 17-page document with an architectural and management assessment, mimicking an engineering manager reviewing a design produced by a team member. The exercise required producing a detailed analysis and recommendations in a shared Google Docs document. I invested significant personal time into the assignment and produced several pages of original content without using AI-generated assistance. After submission, I received a generic rejection message without personalized feedback regarding the assessment or areas where my profile did not align with the role. Given the seniority and technical depth expected for the position, I was hoping for at least minimal feedback after the amount of work requested during the process. From my perspective, the expectations for the role were set extremely high for outstanding candidates, especially because my background exceeded all listed requirements, including long-term engineering leadership and solutions architecture experience. The experience left me with the impression that the evaluation process may rely heavily on standardized filtering rather than detailed candidate assessment. Candidates considering this process should be prepared for a time-intensive assignment phase without guarantees of feedback after submitting answers.