I wanted to share my interview experience with coinbase and help individuals decide if they want to continue interviewing with coinbase or save their time and look elsewhere. I was laid off from Meta and during job search applied to multiple companies including coinbase. - Recruiter reached out to get some info and sent the codesignal test. Aced it by scoring 820+. - In the onsite, had 3 tech interviews and 1 HM round. Did well in all the rounds. - Recruiter said the feedback is positive but the position I interviewed was closed so they assigned my profile to another recruiter. Time frame for all of this is 2 weeks - New Recruiter took a week to reply and she scheduled an HM round with another team. - After another week (after multiple email follow ups), the new recruiter said HM filled that position with another candidate and directly sent out a reject. I’m like WTF, why send reject if the feedback is positive. So I reached out to the recruiter again asking why she sent a reject. - She forwarded me to another recruiter who hasn’t even bothered replying to my emails and that’s how I’ve been ghosted after going through the full loop. So I was trying to secure an offer from coinbase for 2 months after the interviews but still did not manage to get an offer from them. Eventually I accepted another offer as I was running out of time. #layoff
Hiring, backfills, promos are all getting lots of scrutiny. They're trying to control costs from what I can tell.
This is true with several other companies bcoz of the job market (more supply than demand)
That's just what the hiring market is like right now. Even if your interviews are good, it's a struggle to get an offer from a team different than what you initially interviewed for. I'm experiencing this with several companies right now. Just gotta deal with it until the market comes back more.
Feel for u,op. I guess I am not alone in this (happened the same with 2 diff companies)
Isn’t coinbase outsourcing mostly to India? Seen more eng openings there than US recently
You didn’t perform as well as you thought lol
It doesn’t matter to me if you think that way. Look at my comment in the other reply thread
Even if that’s the case, it’s shitty and unprofessional for companies to ghost. If the candidate didn’t perform well, just respect their time and let them know
This sucks..
They reneged offers that’s reason to ignore them forever
Same experience, after OA.
Note: All the recruiters I spoke to during the process explicitly mentioned that the feedback is positive from the onsite interviews
What a rude thing to say. How did you get to that conclusion?