Comment by temp1410
5 years ago
I had a pretty similar experience interviewing at Stripe for a (frontline) Manager position a couple of years ago.
I get scheduled for a screening call with the hiring manager. The hiring manager doesn't call me. Recruiter follows up and offers to bring me onsite (no apology offered) without need for screen.
I'm shared the interview loop which has about 5 people (including the hiring manager who ghosted me).
Interviews were not very technical, just casual chats about management stories.
When it came time for the hiring manager to interview me, I got stood up. Again. Sat 45 minutes in the interview room with no one to check on me or inform if the HM slot will be replaced. Recruiting coordinator was unreachable.
At the end of the last interview, I told the recruiting walking me out about the no-show. They shrugged (zero apology again.)
This was followed up by 2.5 weeks of radio silence despite me seeking for updates.
Ultimately they responded to my follow up e-mails with standard rejection template.
> When it came time for the hiring manager to interview me, I got stood up. Again. Sat 45 minutes in the interview room with no one to check on me or inform if the HM slot will be replaced. Recruiting coordinator was unreachable.
Hah! After 15 minutes of waiting, I'd get up, walk out of the interview room, and wander around the company, talking to random employees, trying to learn just how much of a shit show the place was, if only for morbid curiosity's sake.
Their office has an entire team dedicated to physical security. If you're walking around by yourself and you don't have an employee badge, they find you pretty quick.
Somehow this is even worse than what I went through. At least I didn't get stood up in person.
Wow..
I mean that Seems like typical big company behavior. Maybe you are so special that you usally get treated better but a typical non tech engineer gets that treatment in big companies
Uh, no.
You don't get left alone in a meeting room for 45 minutes and then when the recruiter comes back, you say "Uh, no-one showed up", and they say "oh well"?
That is not "typical" treatment.