Initial phone screen, Api implementation and final in-person round for 3 hours. Totally waste of time as they didn’t even know what they wanted, and ended up wasting both their time and candidate time. The same “not ready to pull trigger” reason.

Overall process was an initial screen with an engineering manager, an open ended take home assignment, an engineering interview (with minimal relation to your take home), and then a 3 hour block of several more back to back rounds. There is minimal feedback between rounds so it's left up to your own self assessment to determine what to focus on when answering questions. The take home was to write a flask app to use github and bitbucket APIs and present combined profile data. With the level of ambiguity of the instructions I time boxed my efforts assuming it was like other interview take homes where we would discuss limitations and next steps for turning it into a real service. Discussion about the take home and its extension was minimally discussed in interviews. I later found out that it was after seeing my take home that they decided to down level the position I was applying for without actually relaying that feedback to me. If I had known that there was such a huge misalignment of impressions I would have declined to proceed further. Another thing that happened too late in the process was mentioning where I was applying to a friend. With the amount of free labor they wanted for their interview process I am not surprised at what my friend who formerly worked there had to say about their DEI problems.