I've been interviewing at several large companies in Amsterdam recently and the interview process at Bose stood out to me for one reason, lack of being human and respectful in multiple small ways that in my opinion say a lot about their company culture. The first warning sign I got is the initial email inviting me to a screening call that used the first person tense but was signed "HR NL," a bit odd I thought as it really gives an impression they treat their employees as faceless workers not humans. Also, didn't know should I respond, "Hi HR NL, thanks for your email..."! The screener was friendly but was clearly in a rush and was a little taken aback that I had questions for her as well! Having past the screening call I got another email from "HR NL" telling me I was invited to an interview with a manager and telling me the day and time it was at. I have never seen such a thing as usually I get a friendly request for some convenient times for me in the next few days or a link to a scheduling app. But no, Bose just tells you when the interview is since they are in charge it seems. The first interview was with the position's manager and 2 HR managers. Was fine, questions were quite standard. One of my follow-up questions was about the culture and the answer was extremely canned like they'd found a wikipedia entry for good company culture and just repeated that for me. Anyways, they said they'd get back to me the next week but ended up taking 2+ weeks with no update email in the middle or anything. Basically my impression was they don't have a strong internal culture or understand that these days a "best practice" of HR is having mutual respect, empathy and conversations with candidates. The hiring manager described the environment in the company as like "family," which I seriously wonder if is remotely true given how they acted.