I seldom leave negative reviews; however, my experience with Raj Tarat, a recruiter at Coinbase, has left a lasting impression. Raj reached out to me regarding an Engineering Manager position at Coinbase while I was on holiday with my three children. Despite the challenges, I managed to secure a reliable internet connection and an appropriate location to participate in the screening interview. Unfortunately, I found his approach to be somewhat unprofessional, leaning toward arrogance, with questions that felt clichéd and lacking focus. At the conclusion of the interview, despite being fully aware of my circumstances—stranded in a remote location with three young children—Raj insisted that I complete an assessment and submit it by the end of the week. I rearranged my plans and put all activities on hold in anticipation of receiving the assessment. Regrettably, despite my efforts to follow up via email and personal messages, I was completely ignored and received no response. This experience was both frustrating and disappointing.

I was contacted via Linkedin for a pre screening interview (45 min). In this initial interview, the recruiter was very friendly and explained everything to me about the process, where I had two more steps: Technical Execution Interview - 45 minutes People Management Interview - 45 minutes The first was more focused on how you manage quality issues, team backlog concurrency, prioritization and scalability. The second was more about team building, hiring processes, etc. This second interview already seemed to me that the interviewer was not in the mood to do the interview, we finished in 20 minutes. After a few days, I got an email from noreply saying they weren't going to move forward at this time. I tried to contact the recruiter to get suggestions for a new application in the future, but got no response. I found the feedback too cold and not engaging to want to apply again for the process.