My process started with real momentum, then got stuck behind approval and scheduling issues. I had the early interviews go in a way that suggested interest from the team, and then things slowed down fast when it turned out upper management hadn’t approved the additional headcount. That meant waiting through a multi-week stretch where it felt like the hiring decision was outside of the interview itself.
HR reached back out with promises that they might still be able to move forward, and then I sat through additional periods with little to no movement—basically silence after the recruiter contact. At one point I was told that upper management still hadn’t approved, and the cycle repeated. It didn’t feel professional or transparent, and I ended up putting energy into follow-ups without getting a clear resolution.
> 1 year
Difficult Negative New York, NY
The first part of my interview was behavioral, framed around understanding their culture and the way they work. After that, the technical portion felt deliberately difficult in its structure—more like a sequence of negative-style questions meant to filter me out for issues that weren’t even clearly tied to the job description.
The difficulty wasn’t just in the technical depth; it was in how the questioning was set up to keep introducing problems rather than exploring whether I could solve the actual work-related tasks.
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