I applied for the position of a Senior PM - International payments. I got a response from a recruiter, we chatted and then started the interview process. All in all, I had to meet with 3 people and the Hiring Manager. Usually the sequence would be HM and then the panel but the HM was away and I started with the first two. Then I met with the HM (who had started a couple of weeks ago) and then one other person. All in all, friendly people, super easy interviews, a nice opportunity. I got the impression that my experience and knowledge in this domain is more than that of the four people altogether. I believe I also nailed all four conversations. Eventually I got rejected and upon asking for feedback, I was ghosted. I guess I'll never find out what intimidated the interviewing team, or the HM most likely. This is super unethical and unprofessional when someone would spend 5 hours of talking to various people and then they won't find 2-5 minutes to copy/paste some feedback or give a quick call back to the candidate. Overall good impression from the team, except for the level they were at and the stage of this particular team (it is just being structured into its own), but the lack of feedback ruined everything for me.

I invested in 6 hours of interviews only to be told my “background wasn’t quantitative enough” (my undergrad is in statistics and analysis). 2/5 interviewers were late. 2/5 interviewers were unfriendly (and Silicon Valley elite - the type who put their private college prep school on their LinkedIn). Since interviewing the hiring manager and design lead have left UpWork - so I guess I dodged a bullet. Overall the experience left me feeling the company is confused with a broken culture.