Fanatics Software Engineer interview questions

The interview was in 4 different stages. 1. Technical coding round (Remote) - 1 hr The interviewer will ask you to complete a coding question on one of the coding platforms while being monitored. It was a reasonably simple question and was not at the level of leetcode medium or hard. 2. Behavioral Interview - 2 rounds of 1 hr each (Remote) Questions regarding your strengths, weaknesses, "explain about a time you ..." type questions. They have two 1hr rounds for this which seemed excessive as most of the questions are repeated and for me it was back to back. I felt like if both the interviewers were present on the first call, we could have saved both us a lot of time. 3. System Design (On-site) They asked me to come to the Dublin office and attend a system design interview. You will have to complete it on a whiteboard while being monitored by a senior developer. Back and forth with the developer is allowed and they try to guide you through the process. Up until this point everything was smooth. They had asked all the candidates to come up to Dublin two days previous to this interview round so as to "mingle" with the other candidates. This was really weird because you were talking and having drinks and food with people who were basically your competitors. I had never experienced something like this before and everyone I talked to at this event said the same thing as well. It felt like they were trying to overcompensate for having issues with the company culture in the past. After the system design interview, the very next day I get a congratulatory email saying that I had successfully passed all the interview rounds and they would soon reach back to me to talk to me about the next steps. However they also mentioned that until I receive the offer letter, nothing is set in stone. This was also extremely weird because it basically said that I passed all four rounds of interview but we don't know if we can offer you a position yet. The recruiter reached out to me and told me that she'll let me know the decision within one week. One week became two weeks, two weeks became 3 weeks. After a month of the final interview I again reached to the recruiter via email and she basically replied with a standard rejection template. This was pretty infuriating as they strung me along for a month and didn't even have the decent to give any feedback on why I was rejected.

Terrible candidate experience. Had a call with the recruiter, then scheduled the tech screen. The morning of the tech screen, I got an email saying that it was moved by a couple hours. I couldn't make the new time, and asked to reschedule. The recruiter then ghosted me.