1.
Applied online
2.
Talent acquisition reaches out to setup phone screen, phone screen goes well, talent acquisition sets up interview round 1
3.
Interview round 1:
roundtable discussion with 2 other engineers
round 1 goes extremely well, talent acquisition reaches out via phone call to tell me that they're hearing good things and that they'll reach out soon with next steps
4.
Talent acquisition reaches out to tell me I've been selected for the next and final round: virtual onsite
5.
Virtual onsite:
1hr meeting with project manager: general culture fit questions - goes well
1hr coding/system design challenge with 2 engineers: extremely open ended (so that they can reject you for any reason) - i thought it went well, but it was so open ended that there's no way to know
1hr meeting with hiring manager: a few culture fit questions and then random, rapid-fire full-stack trivia questions which felt like they were just trying to catch me giving a wrong answer so that they could justify their initial impressions
6.
Talent acquisition reaches out a week later to inform me that they didn't feel I had the requisite experience
Talent acquisition was awesome and round 1 was very fun, but overall this was a waste of time considering the only opinion that appears to hold weight is that of the hiring manager
If they felt I didn't have the experience they could have easily decided that after looking at my resume instead of wasting my time, but I'm aware it does them no good to tell the truth