I applied online for this advertised opening. I had one phone interview, possibly with the recruiter, then was asked in for an onsite interview. I had to develop and give a relevant presentation for the position. This was then followed by several one on one interviews with people related to position, and with hiring manager. It was hard to get feedback. Sometime after, the recruited indicated that they were pursuing other candidates.

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).