Went through three rounds with positive feedback one after another and then interview lined up with SVP of Products in the fourth round. The fourth round never happened as the the SVP of product never attended the meeting and I was kept waiting in the Zoom meeting for 15 minutes and then I dropped off of it. Then HR team said that the SVP has requested the meeting to the next week but HR team forgot to update me on that because the HR person responsible for the process was on leave on the interview date. The next week the meeting was never set up and towards the end of the week I was notified with the typical HR statement that another candidate for the role has reached to the offer stage and they will keep my profile for any future roles that may arise. The entire interview process should have been handled in a lot better and transparent way.

First call with a recruiter they talked way too fast, but at least they were friendly. Second call with the hiring manager was weird. Friendly but talked too much about them and little about me. Do they expect me to interrupt? Very odd infrastructure-focused PM role that’s not user-facing at all. They will have a really REALLY really hard time finding that person. A former software engineer turned PM is best, but they said they didn’t want that kind of person? They also don’t like “full stack” PMs which is very odd. Hiring manager talked nicely, but at the end of the day it was just leadership platitudes. Nothing substantial.