I applied online, and also have one of my friends send a referral for me. Things moved fairly fast. The recruiter reached out and arranged an initial screening. It was fairly easy with a couple of questions about my experience and an easy coding question. I was then invited for a virtual on-site consisting of seven 30-minute 1:1 interviews. This is when things started getting sour. The recruiter never sent me any information about the interviews. The only thing I knew was the name (not even the surname) of the interviewer and the time of the interview. That's it. I reached out for a bit of context as to what to expect, and that's the point I was totally ghosted. I went through all 7 interviews, and they all went pretty well. But I never received any communication despite my two attempts after one week and 3 weeks. Total radio silence. It has been 6 weeks and still nothing. I think, if you interview someone who has an internal referral and spent 5 hours interviewing you, you owe them a two-line rejection email. This is certainly not the way I'd expect a trillion-dollar company to treat its candidates and speaks volumes about what to expect when you actually get hired. The whole process was unprofessional, full of ambiguity, and a total waste of my time.