Complete waste of time.
Company recruiter reached out on LinkedIn. Though I had some reservations about the company (many positive GD reviews were questionable due to high number of “Great” reviews in a short period span as if it was a forced attempt to bring up their rating), their product was pretty cool so I took the call.
The initial 30-min call was with the recruiter, followed by a 30-min, one 90-min, and three 60-min video calls over 5 weeks. Unlike other companies where different interviewers focus on different areas, there wasn’t much of a theme/focus each round. In fact, many of the same questions were asked by three different interviewers. The third interviewer was clearly annoyed when I pointed out that they were the third person to ask the same question that was not “tell me about yourself” or “why Glowforge”. It’s unclear if there wasn’t communication between the interviewers or if it was intentional to see if my answers would be different. If it was the latter, then it says a lot about the culture of the company. Worth noting the interviewers were very homogeneous.
After each call except the last 90 min call, the recruiter reached out asking how the calls went and gauge my interest. I lost interest after the last call due to lack of clarity on how they would measure my success in the role and the interview panel being very homogeneous. I didn’t bother following up and the company eventually sent a generic email from their ATS few weeks later.
