Esri Software Engineer interview experience

After an initial recruiter meeting and then a manager interview, I didn’t hear anything for about a week, and when I followed up repeatedly I kept getting vague responses that didn’t really resolve where I stood. At one point I reached back out and was told they might be able to provide an update the following week, but it still felt like the timeline was slipping.

During that stretch, I was actively interviewing elsewhere too, because I couldn’t justify sitting idle. It turned out that even though the recruiter and manager seemed like they wanted the process to move quickly, higher up