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      Staff Software Engineer/Architect, Data Platform/Search Interview

      Feb 22, 2024
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Austin, TX
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at DISCO (Austin, TX) in Feb 2024

      Interview

      A recruiter found me on LinkedIn. I sent my resume. Recruiter said Disco didn't see enough search experience on my resume. I sent a rebuttal to the recruiter. I got an interview request with the hiring manager. Interview with hiring manager went great. Felt very conversational. Culture at Disco seemed like a great fit for me. Next step was an interview where I discussed a previous big data project I led. I was 50/50 on how that went. Hiring manager had told me to message him if I don't get feedback from that interview in a few business days. A week later I message hiring manager on LinkedIn to let him know I never got feedback. He says he'll ping the appropriate people. Another week goes by. Crickets. Ghosted. I messaged hiring manager again that I never got feedback. Hours later I finally got feedback from one of the interviewers via the recruiter that found me. Hiring manager messages me that he's on it more hours later, I message him back explaining I already got useful feedback. Feedback included references to tools I did not mention. I used internal company documents from previous job that I wrote, thinking no one would mind, but that was a strike against me. The questions I answered "I don't remember" to were interpreted as "I didn't understand." When I said decisions were made arbitrarily and not revisited, that was again interpreted as "I didn't understand." Lesson learned: Next time I present a previous project to a potential employer I'm going to make a sales pitch more than a retrospective. Seems obvious in hindsight.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      I was asked to present a previous project I led in second interview.
      1 Answer

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