Clustr interview questions

This is pretty much HR Driven company it seems from the personal experience. It took almost a month from initial discussion and finally they took excuse of HR round to deny the offer! First round was told to be telephonic where Director spoke about the company and work culture and seemed nice person. Finally I was asked to come in person on Saturday and there were 3 tech rounds which were pretty straight forward and nothing difficult as such. However, I was told by HR that co-founders are not present and will arrange a conversation with them. I expected telephonic round but they asked me to come in person again which could have been completed on the same day. It took another week and HR told that everything went fine and we will initiate the process. After few days, I was asked to provide payslips and background verification form with references from previous employers !! I was stunned since HR did not even speak to me and shot an email saying we will do background verification even before rolling out the offer!! I was quite pissed off since after spending two weeks now they are coming up with this ridiculous excuse and asked HR about clarification and was frustrated with entire delay and excuses for not rolling out the offer! After my mail, HR calls and tells it's just for the record and will not do any background verification until I accept the offer so I agreed and sent documents. Again after couple of days, HR says there will be HR round with HR Manager and I knew the result already since it was just a gimmick to decline the offer and buy some more time probably to interview other cheaper candidates. I was not bothered about offer then on as I was already frustrated. I started thinking, if co-founder after meeting for about an hour cannot make a decision about one single candidate, how can they run the company alone! Or is it just a label and company is run by parent company only? This was my second HR round (yes!!) after my first job as a fresher because HR rounds are removed since long in the process as it was considered to be waste of time. HR started asking me all typical ridiculous questions that why you are leaving your company so soon and you are not stable and all that dumb questions which were already discussed multiple times earlier. My question to them is if stability and all other aspects were so important for you then why did you not flagged it earlier? Why you wasted a month for one candidate when your recruiter bags and pleads to appear for the interview? In startups, things move lightening fast and decisions are taken on the spot because startup is all about taking risks and moving fast! If they would have completed the process on the same day and rolled out the offer quickly then I would have joined on the existing CTC because it was never about money but the moment they started acting smart with all ridiculous demands, I decided to give them my piece of mind. They made it look as if I was being hired for some premier organization and they are doing a favor. This whole experience made me think that how critical HR's role in the entire hiring process because only differentiating factor here was HR experience for me else would have definitely accepted any offer from them since I was more focused on people and work but it was badly screwed up from the beginning!!

Contacted by Recruitment Consultant for the role of Sr. DS. She informed that process will begin with a half-a-day interview with take-home case, which is to be presented later, say a day after. The case was ML problem of moderate difficulty involving an open data-set ~10GB size, which I think will involve around 8+ hours of candidate-time. On a later day, the candidate will have to present the case to the team. Then further rounds involving other stake-holders in DS vertical. 4-5 rounds in total I think. Later I got to know of no-hire decision from the recruitment-consultant. Strangely HR person from the company itself contacted about a month later, showing interest to interview for junior position i.e. DS role. I told HR clearly that I felt the Sr. DS process involved quite a bit of time investment from candidate, and that the company's role on updating the candidate of outcome (i.e. lack thereof) was unprofessional. Lastly, I budged in after he guaranteed that this time, the process won't take much time and I'd get prompt feedback. Alas, the company again put me through 3-4 rounds taking almost half a day. I didn't hear back from them for days despite the HR's assurance earlier that they'd be prompt on feedback. I didn't bother to check again with the company, having seen its unprofessional attitude, it's least regard towards candidate's time and vastly inefficient interview process. Regardless, I took up an Offer with a different firm in due course, and I'm glad that I didn't walk the path toiling on extreme text-data munging. PS: It'd be an easy-guess for the DS team to figure who wrote this; but at the end of the day, actions matter more than intentions, and in its entirety, the team's (not anyone in specific) actions were indeed lacking in professionalism. PPS: Ignore the typos please.