This was not an overall positive experience with the outcome I'd wanted, but feel it's worth sharing as feedback in the hopes of giving insight for other engineers and as a means to move the hiring process, even just a little. I've newly in the market again after really 16 years committed to local companies so I'm not a fresh out of school engineer or a developer that's used to bouncing around often between companies. I was so excited about this company on the outset, one of the very rare companies with really good reviews overall, especially from current employees. When I'm looking at Glassdoor reviews I'm seeing internal reviews in the very subpar level imo. And this was a combo position to utilize my core competencies tech wise as well as many learn some of the languages I'm excited about, Go for instance. And I loved my first interview, second also good, open, lots of candor, third... It's getting to be a long day and I'm getting pressure at home. And fourth, a virtual whiteboard, which I probably have a lot of unnecessary fear around because all of my friends in the industry have basically absolutely do not do them, in part because it's important to set a precedent among engineers about what we will accept, but also because it's such an unnatural way to write code and in no way related to what engineers actually do in the real world. But I did agree to this interview because I was told it would be a real world problem, not some algorithm I haven't seen since college, over 25 years ago. And it was, but it was also relatively fair too, it was an outdated linked list, caching scheme, which is silly today because no one writes a custom linked list, every modern language provides a linked list and every modern language, framework provides very accessible, usable caching models, complete with and library. So it threw me for a curve ball and I wasn't clear if it was intentionally meant to throw me which felt disingenuous and mean. Ultimately I think this was probably more fair than most of what's out there as far as this type of virtual white board.... and! I think there's better ways. There must be. I've been an engineer for 25 years and have successfully worked for great companies, without all of this. I don't think I could have made it this far if I wasn't a little good at what I do and I don't think I'd still have so much passion for this if I didn't love what I do. There's got to be room for great engineers that aren't familiar with or comfortable yet with the current, modern approach to interviews, hiring or those of us that care so much we get hyper critical of our failures and don't do well in an environment that may set us up to fail on purpose rather than helping us succeed. Anyway, should leave this for a blog. Great company no doubt. I truly enjoyed all of the people I interacted with. Hiring process, not so much!

I had a recruiting coordinator reach out to me regarding a Senior Software Engineer role. They set up a call with a technical recruiter later in the week. However, the technical recruiter never called me on the scheduled date. We then rescheduled the call to a couple days later. On this occasion, they called me ten minutes late. They made no reference to failing to call me the first time or calling me ten minutes late the second time. To add to that, the recruiter put me on hold for 2-3 minutes in the middle of the call. The entire experience wasn't very positive and felt very impersonal.