I was contacted directly by the HM with no recruiter in the mix, slightly refreshing but perhaps also reflecting the tiny nature of the core of the company and this particular team. He set up a one-on-one interview in which he asked about my background and where I saw myself in the future. No technical questions. It was unclear from our discussion what kind of research this team actually does when I asked about it and tried to follow up during the portion where I was able to ask questions. One concrete thing he mentioned was testing how GPT could be applied. Great, but that's not research. Is BetterUp making yet another chatbot based on an existing chatbot? Throughout the entire first half of the conversation he kept adjusting his camera: it looked almost as if he had two cameras, one mounted on his monitor and another on his desk, and he kept switching between them. Overall the flow of conversation was rather awkward. Received a rejection a few days letter with a type of cult corporate speak about pursuing passions and so forth.