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FYI, this place says they value transparency but have an explicit policy against providing feedback after interviews. (They did take my documentation PR after the fact.)

Attempting to network with people here led them to promise me at least a response (since these roles were still open, and have been), but they ghosted me then -- only to blindside me about it over a year later, when interviewing me for a different role.

And while they're not the only place ever to grill me about a bad experience at a prior employer, they are the only place ever to explicitly ask me to tell them something I didn't like about one. Or to rate a previous boss (horrible or otherwise) on a scale of 1 to 10.

This, by the way, was all while I accommodated an overseas recruiter by taking an interview at 7pm on a Sunday.

I don't at all feel like I encountered the same level of respect, and while I was genuinely interested in their stated values (including but not limited to their value proposition) and their subject matter, based on my actual interactions with them I really can't recommend applying here.



Atleast you got a response; I have applied thrice over here, but they never bothered to even send an automated rejection.


Oh that was only after the one that did amount to an interview. I otherwise had to reach out to people individually to hear anything at all.

I also applied there some three or so times, and didn't get those either.




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