After final selection, HR confirmed my selection and assured me of long-term growth, saying the offer letter would be released soon once the global budget team gave approval.
Based on this assurance, I skipped the final round of another offer, trusting HR’s word.
It has been weeks, and there’s still no offer letter, despite multiple follow-ups and repeated verbal confirmations.
Shows a complete lack of transparency and accountability — if the budget wasn’t approved, why confirm selection and ask candidates to make career decisions?
HR communication became vague and inconsistent, leaving me completely in the dark.
This reflects poor coordination between hiring managers, HR, and the finance team, wasting candidates’ time and causing unnecessary career setbacks.
Advice to Management:
Fix your hiring process. Do not mislead candidates with false promises or “pending approvals” after confirming selections. Be transparent — people make career decisions based on your word. Respect candidates’ time, trust, and career planning; it’s as valuable as any global budget.
round 1 Is a 30 minute interview with the senior manager, basically does a deep dive into projects and skills in your resume and then technical questions. round 2 Is onsite
I asked the HR contact what type of questions/assessment the interview would consist of, and they said whiteboarding technical problems. The actual interview surprisingly was questions about my experiences instead.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How did you and your team for this project on your resume decide on your tech stack?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Morningstar (London, England) in Nov 2025
Interview
2 hour interview with different stages:
- review of a take home technical task
- technical questions
- coding problem
- design challenge
- team fit
- questions
I didn't pass the technical part - so never got to team fit/questions stage.
But the first part felt unpleasant due to interviewers attitude.
There were 2 interviewers (Senior Software Engineers) who introduced themselves, but never given me time to introduce myself as well - I had to take initiative myself to do that.
I am not a star developer and I can understand I might have made not a very good impression, but this does not entitle interviewers to treat me without respect. In the end it's them who invited me to the interview.
Sometimes it felt like they didn't even listen to what I was answering and then telling me things as if I didn't told same things before.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Access modifiers in C++
- Polymorphism in C++
- Templates in C++
- Difference between stack and heap
- Difference between malloc and new
- RAAI
- What is deadlock