The hiring process was started by the VP Field Engineering with a LinkedIn message. After the first short call, the official process started during Q1 2020. The role was within the Field Engineering team. After completing a lengthy and time consuming process of six interviews and a relatively bulky coding challenge, it was unfortunate to know that my offer letter will not be released because of the hiring freeze during first Covid lockdown. What surprised me the most: Instead of fulfilling the promise to send the offer whenever possible, one of the VP Field Engineering interviewed me again after six months and asked me what technologies have I worked in the past 6 months, and why did I not work on Spark? He asked me to solve the coding challenge once again because he believed I might have lost my spark coding skills. While the other VP (whose team I was going to join) did not even bother to reply on my emails at all. After spending 20-30 hours of my time on the entire process, I felt disrespected to receive the rejection stating that I do not have the skills for the position. This was by far the worst interview experience of my entire professional career. I am not sure If I would consider to apply there again to work under such a leadership team