The entire process is highly impersonal, sterile feeling, uninformative, and uncomfortable. There is nothin enjoyable about it and it gives you no opportunity to get an adequate feel for what you would be getting yourself into. More details below. Pre-screening occurred before the interview where simple questions were asked pertaining to how you fit the role. This included salary expectations, which isn't a nice questions to ask, since it gives the company power over you (if you're desperate enough to answer honestly). If you make it through the screening, you'll be invited to a WebEx interview with the hiring manager(s), and possibly someone from HR. I was required to have my camera on, but the other people did not reciprocate. The whole thing felt like an interrogation, and I had to actively keep things light, smile, laugh a little, etc. Since I could not see people's faces, I had to assume that I was doing well. I have a feeling most people could not manage the interview as well as the necessary level of forced personality that I had to convey. Anyway, my interview only had the hiring managers. The interview consisted of 5 STAR questions. After each question, the hiring managers were allowed to ask a follow up question if they had any. After roughly 40 minutes of answering questions, I was allows to ask my own questions, though I wasn't able to get any information beyond basic stuff that was mostly unhelpful. This was the only interview that was conducted, and I learned that an in-person interview to meet the team, see the facility, and get a feel for the area was not possible, and that practice is nearly unheard of. The strict format that hiring managers are required to follow is doing a disservice to the company. One of the reasons I declined the offer is that despite the best efforts of the hiring manager to give me a feel for the position and the team after the offer was made, I felt like I would have been going into the role blind. The offer wasn't good enough for that risk. Furthermore, by not conducting in-person interviews, it's significantly more challenging to find a mutual fit (I felt bad for the hiring managers too).
