I applied online and a couple of days later, a recruiter contacted me about setting up an initial call for the opportunity. Although the call was confirmed two days prior, the recruiter didn't even contact me on the day of the call. Naturally, I contacted the recruiter and we ended up rescheduling for another day and time. For this call, the recruiter was 30 minutes late. Once we finally hopped on call, the recruiter seemed disinterested in my skills or experience and knew very little about the position I was applying for (based on the questions I had asked about the role). Hours later, I received an email that they are interested in moving onto the next steps. I ended up speaking to the hiring manager where we spoke more in detail about the position. It was a pretty standard HM call. The hiring manager asked if I was interested in scheduling an onsite (portfolio presentation, 1-on-1 with the team) after our call. I said yes. However, I heard nothing from them for 1.5 weeks until a recruiter finally reached out to get my availability. The recruiter confirmed the schedule of my onsite. On the week of the interview, they ended up canceling my onsite last minute via automatic rejection email.

This interview was a poor, unprofessional experience from the start. I scheduled a time with the hiring manager 2 days prior to my interview. At the time of the phone call, he was late, which is no problem at all, but the way the rest of the interview went, I'll count it as a red flag. His first question to me was how I felt about the company -- how would I describe the product. Since I had done extensive research and had known about LaunchDarkly, I gave my answer. His response was weird and when I asked if I was on the right track, he was unable to describe the company to me himself. He stumbled a lot and it was as if he had no idea who he worked for. He essentially just quoted me and said "that sounds about right" The whole experience was off. He was dismissive when I spoke, I could tell he was not giving me his undivided attention and it was like he couldn't wait for me to stop talking so he could move on. Even though we had scheduled our interview a few days in advance, he asked me rudely where my portfolio was, questioned if I had even submitted one (I did) and went on to say that him and his fellow hiring managers were discussing the whereabouts of my portfolio! He could have emailed me even 30 minutes before our conversation if I indeed hadn't submitted it. Even though he had reached out to me for an interview, he made a remark on my years of experience. Knowing this might come up, I had come prepared with other open positions at the company that I would be interested in. At this time I knew he wanted the conversation to be over and when I mentioned the final job opening, he LAUGHED. He was very condescending in asking me what made me think I was qualified for that position. My response? I went through every bullet point and described my expertise to that skill. Overall, incredibly rude, unprofessional, and seeing the amount of poor interview reviews here, I can't help but imagine if they were all with this same person, or this is just the practice of the company. Disappointing. "