TL;DR;
- They are all nice and responsive until you're not interesting to them anymore (after that, there's a noticeable shift in tone and responsiveness)
- Their feedback doesn’t match with what actually happened during the interviews, which makes you wonder if they confused you with another candidate (or are just making up reasons to reject you)
I went to the final round (4th round - "Values interview"), after successfully passing the SQL (1st), Data Science (2nd) and Product (3rd) interviews with positive feedback at each step.
After that, I didn't hear back from them for two weeks (while they used to reach out to me only a few hours after each previous interview), to finally hear during a 5 min meeting they were not moving forward because of a lack of "culture fit".
When I asked for feedback, I received generic, pre-made phrases on "missing signals" regarding operating principles that were never covered during the interview (the interview covered different principles, I even showed my notes to prove it).
Given my surprise and confusion, I requested more detailed feedback to understand how I sent (or didn't send) these signals and how I can correct that for future interviews, which I of course never received.
Their recruitment process felt like fake niceness and inconsistent evaluation, and I’m confident not moving forward was for the best.