Slow, poor, and an extremely unprofessional experience. Read below: 1) Phone screen with HR to discuss the role and the compensation. 2) A few days later, a phone interview with the hiring manager. 3) Take home assignment, which took 3-4 hours. 4) After I submitted the assignment, they disappeared for 3 weeks. 5) Got an email after 3 weeks saying we would like to move forward, and there will be a 2.5 hrs long interview session. I gladly submitted my availability. The email I got had only 1.5 hrs of interviews. I was super confused, but OK. 6) The interviews were short, met 4 people during 2-30min sessions. Now, here's the part you should read very carefully before applying here: 1) After a month long process of 4 interviews and a take home assignment, the recruiters calls me to tell me that the compensation he mentioned initially during the phone screen was WRONG and their budget is not even close to it. The fact that they waited 30 days to let me know this is just POOR. 2) The hiring manager, after the first phone screen, decided to go on a sabbatical in the middle of the process. I was told about this 30 days into the process when they told me about the compensation mishap. 3) Not a single person discussed the take-home assignment. Hope it was not used for their own benefit to perform analysis. 4) They mentioned that the hiring manager will be back after 2 more weeks, which would make this a 6 week long process. 5) 3 days later, I got an email saying they decided to move forward with another candidate because they showed better "cross- functional communication strategies." Pretty ironic how a company that couldn't even communicate the compensation properly within their teams is telling me I couldn't impress them with my cross-functional communication strategies. I have interviewed at many companies, but this was by far THE WORST EXPERIENCE.

Received a prescreen call from the in house TA. Had a very casual comfortable discussion about the open role in more detail. Progressed to having a call with the head of the team for the role. Overall experience was very smooth and enjoyable.