- Contacted by the recruiter through an under-handed poaching exercise from my current employer. Following day was given a phone screen by a "senior engineer" and had travel arrangements made within a half hour of having completed that call. - Traveled on-site to their San Francisco HQ to interview in-person on what was well-known to be a "bad day" within the company for doing any recruitment. - The people doing the interview, while advertised as being "a great team" they had no interest in business knowledge or relevant industry experience. It is clear that they are trying to staff a crack team capable of executing the bare minimum of requirements dictated by somebody with a higher title than bringing real contributions to the table. - They won't publicly admit to trying to penetrate the data de-duplication marketplace in public, but they're putting together a "team" to compete now that they've seen EMC+Data Domain, ExaGrid, Sepaton and the likes capitalizing on the storage market. It's a shame that this "team" is meant to be comprised of a bunch of coding grunts, not people with a real sense of the business space or with ideas that could improve their position in a well-evolved market. - The shortsightedness of the company, along with a very ethnically non-diverse "team" is a recipe for disaster, especially for a relocation candidate. After meeting with them in person, I cannot possibly imagine taking the job even if it were offered, regardless of the price tag affixed. - Despite interviewing for a "senior/principal engineer" role, the interview process was heavily geared toward recent college grads or even career-fair material. Not challenging, and they'd have been better off just putting a bunch of Berkeley grads in the room to take a written test - it would have at least felt somewhat more normal. - The interview process was cold, barren and mostly devoid of discussion - it was one of those interviews where one could legitimately walk out wondering if they even had a position to fill, or were trying to burn some recruiting dollars before the end of the quarter to justify the next quarter's budget. Expense every penny you can because you won't get back the time wasted on this frivolity.