The recruiter reached out to me. At first, I politely turned it down and offered to refer someone else, but the recruiter was insistent so I decided to apply anyway. After talking to the hiring manager, who I thought I impressed with my credentials, I talked to 2 wave of groups: the first wave of interview was a great experience! After 3 weeks, the second group was a “technical” interview, which was a bit odd to be calling it that. When I reached out to the coordinator for clarification, she mentioned that it’s how they labeled the interviews (even though it was not labeled on the first group). The second interview seems superfluous since the questions they asked are almost identical from the first wave of interviews. Compare to the first wave, the second group was less charming. It was radio silence for 4 weeks. Then I got the dreaded generic “passing-on-your-application” email. Felt somewhat disrespected when companies reached out to you, insist that you apply, make you go through the “song-and-dance” interviews, only to not be considered and not even give you the decency of a phone call on why you didn’t get the role.

First round interview with the hiring manager. It sounds like there isn't a lot of rigid structure to the interview process and for this first round interview the hiring manager just read questions off a boiler plate questionnaire. On a personal note, I found the interview very impersonal. The interviewer asked their question, I spent a few minutes answering, and then they asked the next question. There was not a lot of conversation outside of this. I thought I did well, enough so to get through to the next round, but apparently that was not the case! Hard to tell, seeing as how the interviewer gave me very little to go on.