Speaking to the interview specifically: It was a standard FAANG style interview. 1 pre-screen coding session online followed by 4 rounds, each with 1-2 behavioral questions followed by a technical question. Each person i interviewed with was knowledgeable and friendly. Its the recruiting process/post interview process that is atrocious. After the interview rounds the email i received made it sound like i did well and they were just team matching at that point, but that was 2 months ago from the time of writing. Excerpt from said email: "you were an overall [Section Redacted] hire so we are just working out the details to find a team within [Section Redacted] that will best suite your experience and skillsets." I received communication from the recruiter that someone wanted me on their team roughly a month after the interview rounds, but when the recruiter and I spoke he thought the hiring manager and I previously met. When i told him that was not the case he seemed confused and then cut the meeting. Attempts to follow up were not answered, and the technical sourcer also stopped answering. Personally i think i would've rather been ghosted from the beginning instead of having the potential for a team dangled in front of me, it was a pretty disheartening experience.

Started with a recruiter phone call and a 30 minute phone call with the hiring manager to negotiate a remote role since the job was based in Seattle and the manager agreed. Following up with five rounds of virtual on site. Four of them are coding/design. One of them is behavioral mostly leetcode medium level questions which I finished and I was able to do all the follow up and answer the design and time complexity questions correctly after the interview got ghosted for a whole month and got an automatic rejection email.