Took almost a month to hear anything back from my application. Finally heard back and scheduled a call with an engineering manager and then the hiring manager. The calls seemed to be going well, but with two minutes remaining in my call with the hiring manager, I was caught off guard by being asked if I would be okay interviewing for a position below the senior level, since "other companies level differently than we do". For context, I have a total of 8 years of work experience in web technologies, with 4 years of experience leading technical projects (split between a fortune 500 company and 2 startups), and have been a senior software engineer for 3 years. This was pretty insulting (to say the least) as I meet or exceed all the qualifications for a senior software engineer in GitHub's senior-level job descriptions. I was reconsidering my application after mulling over the question for a couple days when I got an email saying they were no longer considering me for the position. It feels like I dodged a bullet early in the process.

First stage recruiter call (45 minutes) which went well, both sides confirmed we'd like to progress to the next stage and the process was outlined. I was subsequently ghosted for 8 weeks, only getting a response when I emailed saying I'd withdrawn my application - to tell me that the team was being "rethought" and the job may not actually be available anymore but they'll let me know (they never did).