Applied for a Platform Engineer role after being contacted directly by the Engineering Manager rather than a recruiter, which already felt like an unusual process. The interview experience was disorganised overall, with long gaps in communication and no feedback until I followed up myself. The technical round was presented as an open-ended discussion around how I would approach certain problems, but it quickly became clear they were only interested in hearing their own preferred approach. One of the engineers repeatedly redirected the conversation instead of engaging in a genuine technical discussion, which made the panel come across as inexperienced and somewhat unprofessional. After the technical interview, I was completely ghosted with no feedback or follow-up despite multiple stages in the process. The company presented itself as highly ambitious, but the interview experience did not reflect a particularly mature engineering culture.

First interview with recruiter. Second interview with engineering manager. Third interview with team members (mostly clueless about anything besides their tech stack, you could do the test in their stack or stack of your choice). Actually I had 5 interviews and they still couldn't make up their mind. Before the scheduled 6th interview with another team members, they cancelled and email that they no longer with to proceed. A week prior, I turned down an offer from another company for focus on Kry (because it's fully remote role).