A recruiter reached out to me through LinkedIn with regards to a position in Madrid. First meeting went well, but the recruiter warned that the interview process would consist of a grueling 6-round process. I commented that those were too many, and the recruiter said that nowadays the process is more streamlined because in the past they forced candidates to go through 7 meetings. When I commented that was absurd they answered that it's similar to the process followed by the likes of Amazon. Well, except that I worked at Amazon and I only had to go through 3 rounds of interviews before receiving an offer. MongoDB's interview process is even more absurd considering the reports that it's a company with high turnover and quick to do rounds of layoffs. They invited me to the coding assessment but after giving a thought about wasting my time with so many arbitrary hoop-jumping sessions, I decided to pull the plug early to avoid this sort of nonsense.