Had someone reach out to me and say that I looked like a great candidate for the role. Had a 1st screening interview 2 days later and that seemed to go well also. Had an interview with the hiring manager 2 days after that and that seemed to go OK. Received generic form email from 1st screening person later that week that said I didnt have the necessary skillset that they were looking for.

I just signed my employment contract with GRIN. I have not even started, but the interview process alone (along with ALL the other reviews here on GlassDoor) are a large part of why I replied to the message from the recruiter in the first place. A GRIN People Operations Coordinator/Sourcer reached out to me through LinkedIn, and said that based on my profile we could be a good fit. Next I talked to Erin Foster, a Senior Technical Recruiter in People Ops and she was hands down the best recruiter (technical or not) that I talked to through my entire job-search this month. I spoke with over 20 different companies, but Erin laid out Grin's origin-story and how technical leadership came from classical waterfall engineering to create this modern company. After that, the second interview with a Sr. SE manager. Great questions asked around things I personally care about in regards to technical management. The third round was with the hiring SE manager. Again, another great interview with all questions I think are spot on with my values as a leader. The fourth round was my favorite: a medium-length presentation with question and answer afterwards with 4 folks from various levels of Dev leadership (2 SE managers plus managers from rounds 2 and 3). The prompt was: Project inception to clients in production. I feel this is a perfect question for SE Managers to be able to articulate in detail. The thing I look forward to the most is developing and iterating on good engineering principles with modern processes. It seems like Grin has solved those problems that engineers/employees always gripe about. I have never been more excited to accept a position (3rd job in my 10-year career) and look forward to a lush career here.