A slow and demeaning interview process Applied online and the hiring manager reached out to me to discuss fit and background. After this, I was invited to interview with one of the PMMs in the team I’m applying for. I was given an unofficial case study where I was to talk about their Simulink online marketing and suggest improvements. This round went well as the PMM was very knowledgeable and agreed on the topics/ points I mentioned. And this is when it started going downhill. I had no response for 3 weeks even after me trying to follow up with the hiring manager. I finally emailed the PMM i interviewed with who luckily replied back saying he’d let the hiring manager know and follow up. The hiring manager finally got back saying he wants another 1:1 with me. I thought it was weird considering we already had one but I said sure. Now, we had a call where he basically asked me exact same questions that he asked me during our initial call (which was like a month ago). I ended up reminding him as it’s clear he totally forgot about our initial call. Anyways, I do the interview and I’m told I’m invited to the final round of interview where I’d have to do some team presentation and then a few 1:1s with other stakeholders… these details would be provided by a recruiter. Finally after 2 weeks of no communication, I get an email from the recruiter for discussing final rounds of “Product Marker Engineer” (not PMM) role - I thought this was a typo. So I didn’t think or say much and took the interview where we went over my salary expectations and other HR stuff. He told me he’ll send me a link asking for my availability. At this point, I was busy with other interviews - so I didn’t immediately follow up and when I did, it took this recruiter a total of 2 weeks to get back to me - NOT with a schedule link but with an auto-rejection email!!! One of the worst experiences I ever had. Took way too many weeks - where I was asked to provide free feedback on their website (and suggest improvements to make it more modern), had to do duplicate interviews, then almost got ghosted twice in-between different rounds of interview and ofcourse, finally got rejected without final interview (I.e; after getting invited to the final round) I guess the only good news was that I atleast got auto-rejected before wasting my time having to sit in their final interview (where I had to do extra unpaid work of trying to sell myself with a presentation).

I was referred by a friend at the end of June. After two weeks, I got an email from HR and asked me some questions about my past experience etc. Then after 4 weeks, I got a call from Hiring Manager and talked about my past experience. It seemed that my experience was kinda different from the job requirement. He needed to check with the hiring team if they can accommodate it. Then the Worst part is the endless waiting time: it took almost two months. I got the rejection email from HR. I suggest not to wait for them. Their process is very very long.