I was first contacted via email on 12/7. by an HR from Zendesk regarding to the job offer. She was kind, we had a short call on the 26th of June because of holidays, then I have been passed to the second round to talk with the sales manager. It was on the 04/7 and had a friendly and great talk with the sales manager. I have clearly stated that I am happy with my current job, but it doesn't supposed to take long to have a talk about another opportunity so I wouldn't mind going forward with them. I couldn't be more wrong.
After this, I was forwarded to the 3rd round of interview. I was supposed to have a 20 minutes sales presentation with screen sharing, pitching their product to the sales manager as a "role play". This was scheduled on the 11/7. After preparing, on the same day, the manager wrote an email to reschedule to 12/7. I agreed. The next day, he not just didn't show up, didn't even write a message or answer my call. After 40 minutes waiting (plus preparation) I managed to reach one of the HR person and was told not to wait more. Apparently, it was an emergency with the manager's pet. We rescheduled to the 14/7. Here, we had a technical problem, that I wasn't told that I need a headset for voicing (naturally I thought we use phone) and the program they recommended didn't allow to join with phone voicing. It was a technical issue. We rescheduled to 15/7. I did get my headset, but after 10 minutes of waiting by our appointment time and after I called several times this manager, I received a message about another pet emergency, so he asked to reschedule. We rescheduled to the 20th and finally made the demo presentation. I was naturally nervous, but it was an fair talk and the manager was polite. I was promised to get feedback in 2-3 days, max. 6 working days.
After 1,5 weeks, I reached out to the HR manager and by the next day I received an answer on the 02/8.
The process since contact and finish took almost 8 weeks with tremendous stress, fustration, missed calls, ignored emails and without any feeling of taken seriously after they have reached out. I never felt this disrespected while I put at least 10-15 working hours of preparation and rescheduling. I wonder how do they plan to hire "top" talents while they provide this kind of service for future employees?
The worst possible experience that I ever heard of.