I was contacted by a recruiter shortly after applying, after this the recruiter was very hard to reach. After the recruiter, I had a total of 4 interviews (1 HM, 2 Technical Discussions, 1 coding round). The recruiter did a horrible job in scheduling these interviews. I had given him my availabilities for a week out and got them scheduled. The recruiter then moved my already scheduled final round to 1 week earlier, with only 1 day notice, meaning I received the notification that my final round was moved to the following day of receiving that notification. This is absolutely unprofessional and got in the way of my preparation time.

I cleared the interview rounds for a Software Engineering role and was explicitly told by the recruiter that I was selected. We discussed compensation, agreed on a tentative start date, and when a system rejection email randomly triggered, HR told me in writing to ignore it as a system error. Relying on these confirmations, I turned down other active job opportunities. After 10days, my portal status was changed to "Declined." When I escalated this, management completely shifted the narrative, claiming the previous conversations were just "exploratory" and that the role was now closed. Red Hat’s internal team completely failed to align, and their recruiter directly misled me into destroying other career opportunities. To lead an engineer on to the point of discussing exact start dates and dismissing rejection notices, only to pull the rug out and deny it later, is a severe breach of professional ethics.

Applied to multiple positions, got an instant response, and scheduled an initial call with the recruiter a day after. Scheduled another 2 interviews with hiring managers from two different teams, the talks were semi-technical, also focused on my ability to work in a team. Last of all, I had two proper technical interviews, one per team I applied to. They focused on my experience and technical knowledge, while also sharing more info about the work I would be potentially dealing with. Thankfully tere was no live coding. I've talked to 7 different personas during my interview process, and they were all really pleasant and nice to talk to. Overall I had a great time, and it truly felt like they wanted to get the best out of me, which I believe they did. Also it was a very very quick process.