Interviewing and Onboarding - Anonymous employee Levi Strauss Employee Review

I was employed for a little over 5 months and left because of better employment opportunities. My initial interview period and onboarding were terrible. I never received a call when expected and the interviewer never showed on the day of my in-person interview. I waited for over 30 minutes before someone called me to apologize and reschedule. I drove 5 hours just for that interview which never happened. So, some random recruiters and juniors interviewed me for the sake of interviewing and they had no clue about my skill set. There was a lot of rescheduling on the part of my recruiter and I felt that she didn't respect my time. I appeared for six interviews of which only two I found were intelligent and made sense before being offered junior position making <60k. I find that such a waste of resource. Looks like other 4 interviewers were treating me as a guinea pig to practice their interviewing skills. I did accept the job out of necessity because I had given notice to my previous employer. BTW, I had a great boss and team who supported me and I learned a lot over the period of six months. LS&Co. has some of the most wonderful people I have ever met and it is just that their initial recruiting is terrible or it was just me unlucky guy to experience that. I had joined on a DACA immigrant visa with EAD and had initial difficulties completing their employment verification as I have had the petition with USCIS regarding the status change. Both my boss or higher-ups had no clue until one of my immigrant colleagues connected me with the HR guy in Texas who she said had helped her and team too with OPT Extensions, verification and get employment authorized and that he was very humble and knowledgeable. And, with all honesty that was one of my first best onboarding experience I have ever had with any company. I was in similar limbo with my previous employer too with regard to employment eligibility and they didn't give a damn about me. I believe they have an HR team in California and Texas. This Asian-Indian dude is a rock star and helped me connect with the congressman and also helped me in making sure that my immigration papers were correctly filled and submitted. I received my EAD a month after that and I was eligible to work. After, that he even helped me with payroll issues and other onboarding problems like navigating workday, even though I don't think that it was his job responsibility. He literally went out of the way to help me and answer my questions. I would give this guy 5/5. Being an immigrant and stress we go through every single day and our faith lies in the hands of USCIS, I will never forget the comfort he provided me and thereby my family throughout the I-9 and payroll process. It has been 5 months or so and I wish I could remember his name and acknowledge him. Also, their HR Call center is very helpful and ladies are very friendly but a little slow in response. I wish they worked after 5.30pm CST. Now moving on to benefits I love their 401k match program, HSA contribution, Insurance and 40% discount on apparels among other benefits. I would give them 5 stars but that initial onboarding just didn't cut the deal. I loved working with Levi and it is such a historical company. The culture is laid back and awesome. Levi valued work life balance which my current company doesn't :-( but I have better title, pay and fabulous onboarding experience. Someday, I will join back Levi.