First round went smooth. Then they set up for second round which was 3 and half hour. There was no aheads-up for a 3 hours coder pad session. As per our last call, it was supposed to be behavioral and technical and product related topics. Not that I was ready, but a proper indication wouldn’t have caught me off gaurd. After 3 hours coder pad session , I was waiting on the screen for next interviewer and interviewer didn’t not show up at all and then I get a meeting cancel event from them with the note that I was rejected!!! . Who would reject a candidate in between the interview session?!!!!. Proper way would be to complete the on going interview then take feed back from other interviewers. one of the interviewers didn’t even have Java background to evaluate/discuss my code. He muted himself for so long. I don’t know what was expected out of coding? I remember getting all right outputs. I know I am good at what I do, might not have for their company expectations, but if they don’t complete whole interview process and reject in the middle of interview, it’s not respectful.

Had phone screen with recruiter with lots of behavioral questions. Interview was pretty long, many times recruiter repeated herself about same thing which was waste of time. Seemed very invested in my candidacy during interview, asked to email her with some additional info, which I did. Then ghosted me after several emails.

The recruiter reached out and displayed a condescending behavior on the first call. One day before the technical screen, the recruiter sends me an email that my technical screen was great, and I am moving to the final round. WHAT???? How mismanaged can one be? During the technical phone, the manager starts off by saying that he's been working in databases for over 20 years and asked me if I had worked on those before. After clearly stating that I hadn't worked on those databases, he started asking me questions on the same subject, trying to show off their knowledge. As a followup, I tried to ask him certain questions around why they chose 'x' approach vs 'y', and the answer was 2 minutes of silence followed by 'our developers like it. I'd rather never work for you if you don't know what you are doing.