1. Applied on Indeed.com itself 2. Recruiter reached out for initial screening interview and submitted feedback to the hiring manager 3. Interview with the hiring manager 4. Moved up to the interview loop 5. Total of 5 interviews as part of the loop including technical (IC level) and management interviews split in to 2 days - Technical interviews were around different type of manual and automated testing - Mentorship interview - Management interview - Closing interview, mostly about how everything went. I’m sure the overall intent behind the interview structure is well however I don’t think it necessarily helped the hiring manager make a well informed decision. Why? Because no one who interviewed me while in the loop, was on the hiring team itself. I was given a chance at the end of every interview to ask questions, but no one could answer them effectively because, guess what, no one was actually part of the hiring team so the answers were very generic and didn’t not help me that much. Especially when different teams at Indeed have very different team structures, technology, methodologies. I felt it wasn’t fair to either the hiring manager or the candidate. I understand whoever doesn’t get an offer tend to provide a negative feedback but to their defense, the interviews were well intended but did not work even for them. I kind of lost interest on the second day of the interview. That was the day of the management round, which was essentially the repeat of my initial interview with the hiring manager. That annoyed me a bit and hence may have affected my performance. Many companies do the loop, but the hiring team interviews the candidate and gives the candidate a chance to know the team.

Interviewees are not on the same page and the entire full-day interview was confusing. The first 3 interviews were pretty casual and basic. The onsite all-day agenda was not well prepared or executed by the staff