There was no traditional interview. I was contacted by Talent Ops, told I’d been “shortlisted” for an AI Training Expert role, and asked to complete onboarding (NDA + independent contractor agreement) on an urgent timeline.
After signing the NDA, I was sent a standard contract via PandaDoc. The agreement had some unusual terms around intellectual property, device monitoring, and non-solicitation. I tried repeatedly, over several weeks, to get a very simple written confirmation so the contract would match what their team said in email. Despite multiple polite follow-ups and even reaching out to leadership, I never received that confirmation or a clear yes/no on whether they were moving forward.
In practice, the “interview process” felt like: urgent request to sign, then weeks of non-communication and no clear decision. I held time and turned down other work based on their initial urgency, then was effectively ghosted when I raised reasonable contract concerns.
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Question 1
Honestly, there weren’t any real interview questions. The only “ask” was for me to urgently sign paperwork and start onboarding. I was told I’d been “shortlisted” for an AI Training Expert role and asked to complete an NDA and an independent contractor agreement within hours because the project was “starting today.” Once I raised basic questions about the contract (broad IP grab, device monitoring language, etc.), the urgency vanished. I spent weeks politely following up just to get a one-sentence written confirmation so the agreement would match what their own team said in email, and mostly got silence. No structured interview, no real two-way conversation, just pressure to sign a lopsided contract and then non-communication when I didn’t blindly accept it.