Upstart Software Engineer interview experience

References came up too, and after the onsite the recruiter even told me verbally that I’d be getting a senior-level role. I went through the reference check expecting momentum, but then the communication stalled.

After more than two weeks of radio silence, I finally got an offer—but it was at a lower level than what I’d been told verbally, and it made the entire reference process feel like wasted time for the people I’d asked to support me. The overall impression was that the process didn’t respect the effort I spent, especially given how decisively things were described right after the