My process was surprisingly fast. I went through four rounds in a single week—starting with a recruiter call, then moving through team-level conversations and up to an associate CTO discussion. Everyone I spoke with was very friendly and the feedback after each round felt genuinely positive, so by the time I finished the last conversation I was already hopeful.
Still, I never heard back afterward. I followed up and was told that next steps would be shared, but then everything went quiet. Looking back, the hardest part wasn’t the interview difficulty—it was the silence after getting strong signals during all four rounds.
> 1 year
Difficult Negative Denver, CO
I got contacted online and then did a phone interview with a hiring manager. At the end, the recruiter told me it went well, but after that the communication basically disappeared. I kept reaching out over the next month, and the recruiter kept giving excuses that the hiring manager wasn’t available because of meetings and other situations.
Eventually I realized I wasn’t getting a real update—I was being stalled. That experience genuinely felt unprofessional and it left a bad taste, especially because I’d been expecting at least a clear next step. I never heard anything after that point and it ended with no offer.
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