Internal recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn to schedule a time on his calendar to speak with him about the role. I wasn't actually given a job description for the role, and they took it down from their careers page because they were getting flooded with applicants. The job market these days really blows. Anyway, I asked for the job description ahead of meeting with the Chief AI Officer and learned that I'm not really a fit for this role. Nevertheless, the CAIO (CAO?) wanted to meet with me, so we met on a video call that lasted half an hour. It was a very pleasant conversation- the CAIO is super-chill. Seemed like it was equal parts cultural fit assessment and technical assessment. He seemed genuinely interested in and curious about certain aspects of my experience. After meeting with the CAIO, I had another video call this time with a mid-level engineer and a senior-level engineer. The senior-level engineer seemed either autistic or incredibly uninterested in the interview, while the mid-level engineer was very friendly and engaged. The questions were strange in that they weren't technical, and very open-ended. Most of them I've never been asked for in an interview period, nevermind in a technical (or what was supposed to be a technical) interview. They rejected me a couple of days later with a probably generic but still thoughtful email. Everyone was very nice, and I VERY MUCH wanted to work for Artisight as they are one of the few AI startups that isn't blindly following the LLM/RAG/let's build a ChatGPT wrapper trend. They're also making the world a better place, which I think most companies fail to do. I think my advice for any would-be candidates would be to not bother applying with Artisight unless you are virtually a perfect fit for the role or have FAANG experience. I checked around half the boxes and I don't think that's nearly enough in today's job market. Companies like Artisight can hire anyone they want, so when the recruiter reached out I should have known it was too good to be true.