This review pertains to an introductory call between a recruiter and myself. I applied to a generic SWE position with Articulate and was contacted for an interview. The call started great with a short description of Articulate and their accomplishments which were rather impressive. After introductions, the conversation started with the recruiter stating that my experience "seems" a bit different than "regular" Software Engineers as I had less than 2 years of experience at the time of applying, however, the recruiter wanted to proceed with at least meeting me because my resume states I am self-taught and that the recruiter stated, "self-taught engineers are curious and usually produce better quality results than engineers with degrees". The initial statement set the negative tone for the rest of the call which mainly compromised of generic "rate your experience with X technology". There were numerous questions to which my answers were followed up with borderline accusatory statements implying I clearly did not have the skills Articulate was searching for. I made an attempt to end the screening call as the tone of the call was not polite or comfortable from my perspective to which the recruiter opted to add some more context in regards to me clearly not being a good fit at the time as I lacked the back end experience they were searching for and again stated that "their" engineers all have "3+ years of experience". The company was seeking more senior candidates which is fine as the job posting stated such and I do greatly appreciate Articulate accepting my application.

One of the worst recruiters I have worked with and extremely unorganized interview process. Recruiter reached out to me about a role at Articulate, had a standard screen call, then a call with the hiring manager. Hiring manager informed me that they were close to filling the role I was interviewing for but was assured there were other teams that had positions that needed to be filled. I received the take home assessment and submitted it on time to the recruiter. Did not hear back for over a week. After a follow up email was told the role had been filled and another team may be interested. Turns out that teams roles were filled as well. Then suggested another team and scheduled an interview. I asked for details about the format of the interview - first was told it would be an interview going over my take home, which at that point had been weeks since completing. I studied my takehome. A few days before I asked about IDE, and was told an IDE would not be required because we were not going over the takehome at all. What was the point of the takehome? The following panel interview was with three high level engineers who were nice enough, but the question was a bizarre pseudocode on a google doc where they were looking for one particular answer. Was even told they had pre-scripted answers to any questions I might have? What are you even assessing at that point? That I can get to your predetermined answer from your vague psedocode bug problem? Overall a terrible waste of time.