deviantArt interview questions

Interviewed here for an IT position at the beginning of 2020. While I never saw the salary, I was nevertheless excited because DeviantArt is a big name website that I have used for many years. Had an initial phone interview with one of their guys in NYC; it went well. We jived and I was able to answer the questions sufficiently. The following week, I was told they wanted to meet me for an in-person interview. So I drove from San Diego where I lived at the time, all the way up to the HQ in Los Angeles. Office is nice, in-person interview went smoothly. Another week passes by, I had a phone interview with the guy from the first one, as well as someone new (to me) in Miami. Same as the previous two, went well without a hitch. One more week goes by, they want me to do a Zoom...with their IT team in Tel Aviv. (DeviantArt is owned by Wix, which is headquartered there.) So I woke up at 5:00am PST, and did the interview. You can probably guess what's next...yet another week goes by, I see they want me to do one last interview over Zoom with one of their HR people. So I did, and it felt average. One more week goes by, don't hear anything. In hindsight, I may not have even gotten this much back from them at all, had I not reached out to them directly to follow up. But drumroll...they didn't give me the position. Just unbelievable! FIVE interviews it took them to turn me down. Historically, I have never had more than 1-2 interviews for a job, and meeting in person is typically the last one. If you can't make up your mind after meeting someone, don't drag them through the mud and kick them to the curb. I cannot believe these people would make someone that matches the job to a tee bend over backwards, only to say, "you're not the right fit." I answered practically every question right, verbal and written. I was prompt and professional for all five interviews. If they hated my guts I would assume they wouldn't have bothered to talk to me nearly half a dozen times. I guess whomever they did pick has whatever they were looking for that I apparently lacked. I have never experienced such a ludicrous hiring process in my life. But reading these other reviews now, nearly two years later, I can see that sadly I am not the only one who has gone through this. Lessons learned. If a company makes you jump through this many hoops before they even make you an offer, they're not worth working for regardless.

This was a remote interview done via video call. It was fairly straight-forward, consisting of a one-on-one conversation with the immediate supervisor for the role. Interview questions were about my customer service experience, as well as my experience with the DeviantArt platform and my tolerance for the broad spectrum of online art.