I interviewed August - September 2020. The process took a couple months from initial recruiter screening to the on-site interview. During the screening call, it was basic screening questions and talking about your own background. Pretty standard stuff. Next, I interviewed with the hiring manager for a role focused on their international customers which fit my background quite well. During that call, the hiring manager had me go through a couple projects in my portfolio. Through conversation with her and based on her questions, it was apparent that she didn't have experience with designing, building or considerations for international customers and accommodating multiple languages. After that, I had the virtual the on-site which was a group presentation in which i was to be on camera and walking through a couple case study format portfolio projects. Nobody on the interview (not even the HR person) had their camera one. Everyone was on mute and they did not ask any questions at all. Besides it being awkward, there was no response to even gauge whether the people in the interview were even at their computer or signed in to the interview and off in the next room doing whatever. Then I had a few one-on-ones with people. The first one-on-one during the virtual on-site made me almost write the recruiter to tell them that I would not continue with the rest of the interviews that day. Unfortunately I was desperate for a job having lost mine because of the pandemic and it got the better of my judgement. The person berated me the whole time and talked down to me. At one point, the interviewer asked me why my "work was so old in my portfolio." I showed work from the end of 2019 as I didn't have any more recent work from 2020 as the company I worked for went out of business in April just as the pandemic started. When I mentioned that, she scoffed as though "what do you mean? I still have a job!" The rest of the one-on-one interviews were ok and average. The interviewers for those were nice and I felt like we had good conversations. I heard back a few after the virtual onsite from the recruiter who scheduled a call for the next week to share a status update. I unsurprisingly didn't get the role. About a month later, one of their recruiters reached out to me about a contract role which I said I was interested in. Upon sending them my "latest resume" per their request, they came back to me and said that I would have to wait at least 6 months.
