Wise Software Engineer interview experience

I spent about a month and a half moving through multiple rounds, and I spoke to two different recruiters who gave inconsistent feedback. At one point, they even mixed up what steps I had completed, and I remember getting conflicting signals about my level (one recruiter implying fit for a specific IC level, while another said they weren’t considering me at that level at all).

There were also moments that made the process feel unnecessarily disrespectful of my time. I had interviews where a manager didn’t seem prepared, showed up late, and then the session ended abruptly with an automated