A phone screen with a recruiter, then a 1 hour interview with a pair programming problem, then a 5 hour interview with 2 technical sessions and 4 personal interviews. I really enjoyed speaking with everyone I interviewed with with the exception of my recruiting contact. During the technical portion of my 5 hour interview, I successfully completed the problem and when I asked the interviews whether they wanted to review my work they told me that it wasn't necessary because most candidates don't finish in the allotted time. When the recruiter called me with interview feedback, he said that I had overengineered the problem which confused me since that wasn't the feedback I was given during the session. When I contacted the recruiter to follow up with questions my emails were completely ignored. I also emailed the recruiter immediately after my interview to ask for contact info to follow-up with and thank some of my interviewers, and that email was also ignored. I finally received a message from him that seemed to be a form rejection and not a response to anything I had asked in my 3 prior emails that were ignored. I continued trying to reach out because I really did like the employees I spoke with, and was frustrated that I wasn't given an avenue to follow up.

Applied online for a Web Engineer job at the times. Told the recruiter I was interested in working on one of their client facing teams and looking for a Senior level role since that was my current level. Went through a phone screen, then a 1:1 remote interview, then an in person 5-interviews-in-4-hours panel. This interview panel was for a non-client-facing team, which was frustrating since I specifically discussed wanting to work on a client-facing role, but you know. Sometimes that's just what's available in terms of roles. The feedback I got on all of those interviews was that I did okay on one of the coding interviews and good on all the remaining interviews (in total 2 technical, 3 non-technical). The Times then offered me a down-leveled (Mid-level, non-senior) role, citing the single interview where they said "My code was kinda messy" despite me acknowledging that during the interview and being told not to worry about refactoring my code once I got a working solution. This all resulted in an offer that was about 40% under the number that they had told me was a reasonable expectation at the start of the interview process. My hunch is that my age/YoE (I'm very young for my level) played into this decision, which would be annoying since that was known at the start of the recruitment process and could have prevented me and the Times staff from spending a large amount of time discussing/interviewing for a job they didn't intend to offer me. (Since a job offer to switch jobs for a 30% pay cut doesn't count to me as much of a job offer) Additionally, responses and feedback were continuously delayed, which would have been fine had the Times not given their own dates for when I should expect feedback and then blew by them without any notice as to why.