The first step was a phone call with the lead (?) HR/Recruitment rep. Very early on speaking with her it was apparent she didn't understand what this position did, so by keeping to buzz words and cracking a joke here or there, I was able to move on. The next step was the following week, where I met with the would be (?) department head (in NYC), in a small conference room. He was pleasant, and we seemed to share many of the same philosophies and professional mannerisms/ideologies. I left that interview feeling slightly confident (only because at the end things just kept getting more and more awkward, as it seemed there was no set path/next steps and he ultimately had no say in whether or not I was hired). A whole week and a half went by, and I reached out only to have things be a bit unclear, and there was a back and forth with several emails. I was then contacted by HR/Recruitment woman #2, who notably seemed to be much more capable/in touch with the company as a whole, but she seemed a bit reduced in her abilities by HR/Recruitment woman #1, having to answer to her/follow #1's lead. It was a shame, because she seemed one of the few honest, straightforward people I met with. I ended up having to set up a time the following week to speak to the hiring manager, a woman whom was located in London. That phone interview seemed based around a script, as there were a few cut-and-dry obviously googled "what to ask on an interview" type questions. The woman (hiring manager, as it turned out) seemed as if she was doing something else at the same time, or at least not taking the interview seriously. I left this phone call less than confident, and figured I would move on. Oddly, I was contacted late the next week asking to come in for a "final round" of interviews. I met with three people, the first of which being a different person entirely as the person I was supposed to have met with "went home sick" (notably seeing eyeroll from the two people who told me this). The first woman (substitute) I met with was very straight-forward, and we had great chemistry in our discussion, a no BS kind of person, truly looking to be the best at her job and we shared a great discourse. She painted a picture of the company being a "wild west" type of environment. The second woman's first words to me were that she was late and had to cut things short, and in general she seemed unpleasant and had already checked out before she even started chatting. I did what I could to keep the conversation upbeat, but it wasn't my strongest showing. The third, and last woman I spoke with I had an interesting discussion with, but some small notable oddities in the conversation–nothing horrendous, but perhaps just telling of her having a quirky personality. All-in-all, however, I felt confident that I may actually being getting an offer, as I was very confident that I could do great things for the company and I could find my place there, and that I had expressed this and got along well enough with everyone to be asked on. A week went by, I reached out to HR/Recruitment woman #1 to receive a message that the hiring manager was out on a conference (for a whole week? after she herself had mentioned she wanted to "hire someone as quick as possible"), and that she would get back to me as soon as she heard. To no surprise, here I sit almost 3 weeks later having never heard anything...it's honestly possible I could still be in the running. Who knows? There were a lot of small flags throughout the entire process, mostly perhaps being the oddities/challenges one expects with the world of finance...and there were many telltale signs of people who had "failed up" and in the mercurial and fluid current nature of the company could float by with general incompetence/apathy. It would've been better than where I work currently, for certain, but perhaps I'd be looking for a new job within a year or two coming to the same toxic attributes one seemingly cannot avoid in finance–be it with the work or people. There was no real passion or humanity to the process, and although mostly polite, there was a lot of professionalism left to be desired.