The whole process was pretty standard, but the way that the rejection was handled was just disrespectful. I passed the recruiter screen and hiring manager screen easily enough, there was nothing out of place there. I was asked to do a take home assignment - read in an API data stream in one service, have another service perform some operations on it. I made a simple Flask API app for the operations, finished it all in a couple of hours and turned it in. The recruiter said I would hear back by Monday at the absolute latest about setting up a code review interview. Monday rolls around, and there's nothing. Tuesday morning I reach out asking for updates. Nothing. Tuesday night just before midnight, my access to the take home assignment was revoked. Wednesday morning I receive a form rejection email. I don't mind being rejected, but if you're rejecting in-progress candidates you can at least give them a personal email with an actual reason. It's one thing to receive a form rejection from the get go, it's another to have interacted with several people, have had pleasant conversations, and then be tossed aside.

The interview process was intense and consisted of 6+ calls and a take home coding exercise. I made it through the entire gauntlet and the process took the better part of a month. All of the interviewers were pretty decent but it felt like the pair for the take home assignment review had already made up their minds before the call started. It seemed like the team had no check-ins mid process since the hiring manager wasn't involved until the very end after the initial screen. The result here is that if a candidate failed the first interview they would still have to do the remaining ones even though there was zero chance of an offer. I was told on the final call with the hiring manager that I would hear back the following Tuesday after the team had a roundtable discussion. That deadline came and went without an answer. A solid week later I followed up with the recruiter for an update. 20 minutes later my temp Github access to the coding assignment was revoked, and then an hour later I got a boilerplate auto-rejection email. No feedback, no explanation, no human touch. Cold as ice. Please be more respectful of your applicants and their time. If I had not reached out directly for an update I would have been ghosted. Do better.