Short HR interview followed by an interview with the hiring manager. I was told that they would get back to me with the next steps after they interviewed a few more people, but the never did. I learned that I didn't get the job by checking the status on jobvite a few weeks later. I would have appreciated more communication on their part.

I applied because the job description and company mission statement sounded amazing. Who doesn't want to work on machine learning algorithms to save elephants? I initially talked to an HR representative who said I then will be talking to the hiring manager next. About a week later, I had an interview with the hiring manager, a brilliant and nice guy. He then said I should come in for a few in person interviews. A week after that, I came in and had 5 in person interviews. The first three interviews were software/coding interviews. The 4th was lunch with a director and the 5th was a skype interview with two long distance programmers. After the interviews, I had suspicions that they were looking for more of a software developer than a machine learning developer. No one really tested my knowledge of machine learning or statistics. Although there were some interesting coding questions. I had some competing offers at the time so I was honest and said I would like to hear back asap. The HR representative told me it would have to wait a week because the hiring manager was out. A week and a half later, I was told that they would like to make an offer but wanted to talk about salary expectations. Three days later from that, I called to check, and the HR representative told me that they haven't had a chance to meet and review the offer. They would in 2-3 days. A week later, I sent another email and the HR rep responded and said that the CTO was going to approve it. A week after that I sent another email and still haven't heard back. It's been 7-8 weeks since I had the first interview and 3 weeks since I was told an offer would be made. I'm done pulling teeth and have accepted another offer. If a company says they want to make an offer but delays and makes excuses and doesn't make a written offer- that's indicative of a deeper issue that puts me off. Overall the interviews were great, I met some smart people, answered some interesting questions, and only got a verbal offer, nothing in writing. I'm pretty sure nothing will come of it.