A recruiter from Sysdig initially reached out to me to meet and discuss a position they had open. He was very communicative with scheduling interviews and giving me some light preparation input when meeting with everyone. For the onsite, the schedule was E-mailed but did not include a calendar invitation. I misread it and wound up missing the first interview. They handled it with grace, which I appreciated. I accept responsibility for this. Totally my fault. A calendar invitation would have been helpful, but I really should have made one for myself, so mea culpa there. I was advised by the lead that the interviews would be pretty low level. To my surprise, they weren't. I'm not sure if this occurred because of answer/responses I gave, or what. But I did go out of my way to bring up topics discuss my experience relatively lower level system and networking topics. I don't recall any follow up questions being asked of me when I did so, however. Overall I really enjoyed speaking with everyone. I got great, positive feedback from basically everyone (e.g., "that's what I was looking for," or "wow that's an interesting approach" -- paraphrasing here, but you get the gist). So I left feeling really good about the experience. The final round was with the VPoE, which was scheduled late afternoon on a Thursday. I was again prepped on what to expect (that they were looking to gauge my interest in the company, my communication skills, etc.), but we wound up spending almost the whole time answering questions I had. I was a bit surprised, but that was fine because I did have a lot of questions. This interview wound up going ~15-20min over, and he was gracious in not pushing me to end it even though an incident/outage began during the interview. Due to the time spent, coupled with my previous experience interviewing, I felt really positive about everything. The recruiter told me he would be in touch the next day. After not hearing from anyone, I finally reached out to him in the early evening. He said he wasn't able to reach the VP all day and would talk to me on Monday. No problem, people get busy and I don't expect to be a super high priority on a Friday! Unfortunately I did not hear from anyone Monday. This was slightly frustrating as I was told I'd hear back, but hey--no problem, people get busy. So I waited all day Tuesday. I reached out late Tuesday afternoon. We finally spoke early that evening, which was when I learned that "while it was close, they were looking for someone with more low level Linux experience." In combination with the lack of follow through in communication, I found this to be particularly frustrating as no one actually brought up the topic of Linux *at all*. Look, I have no expectation that every job is a great fit, especially reciprocally. But it felt very peculiar that after such great direct communication through the interviewing phase of the process, it ended with subpar communication and a reason that made zero sense in the context of how the meat of the interviews were conducted. While I don't expect negative aspects of the hiring process to represent one's experience as an employee, I do feel companies should strive to make it as positive as possible. Unfortunately this did not end so positively, and to me that was solely because of the lack of communication in the end.