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Hi,
thanks for the feedback.
I am sorry that your experience was negative but I will provide my feedback for other people that will read this.
- Our process is as follows: during the application candidates have to respond to detailed questions on Linkedin and then, if selected, to another small questionnaire which we send via Google Form; this helps us proerply choose the candidates we select for interviews and therefore interviews are usually very technical because we already know most of what we need to know.
- We use people from our team for the interview to avoid unnecessary interactions with third parties that know nothing about what we need.
- We state clearly in the job post that we will ask people to perform an exercise. Since we don't want to steal people's time we do something very basic live during interviews, most of the time. Our goal is assess the level of english, the confidence in using basic collab tools like git and so on, basic skills for the role (based on the requirements we put out in the job post), plus the ability to work under stress. The interview usually takes at most 1 hour. If this first interview fails there are no further interviews, otherwise we usually have a second and more thorough interview together with a draft offer, again in order to shorten the over time requested by the process.
- We strive to respond each and everyone and not leaving people hanging on our response.
- I agree it should not happen that we miss the interview meeting but things happen and apparently you were contacted back and we were finally able to interview you.
Final note, this process has been refined over the years by our senior technical people to be as impartial as possible but also as effective as possible. In 2023 alone we have interviewed more than 100 people. Obviously the process is perfectible and there are useful points in your feedback as well that we will try to address.
That said, best of luck for your search!