I recently interviewed with this company called Amobee. I had 7 rounds of interview which included three coding rounds, two system design rounds, one managerial round and one final interview with the director. I felt I did well in all of the rounds. In the final round, I spoke with the director and he was impressed by my background and skills. So he started negotiating about the level I would join. He said he would pay Lead Engineer’s salary but asked me to join as a Senior Software Engineer. I said I am currently a Senior Software Engjneer and that I had 10 years of experience. I have lead many projects in my career and since the position I interviewed was a Lead Engineer position, I did not want to down level. Anyways he asked me to think about it and get back to him. A couple of days I receive an email saying I was rejected. Just an automated email. I don’t mind the rejection. A proper way would have been a phone call from the HR at least. I spent almost 2 weeks of my time for interviewing at this company. So my two cents would be never believe what the Director says. TC : 195K
Amoeba sounds horrible.
You played hardball over a meaningless thing like an internal level name?
During the conversation, he said he is okay with either decision and asked me to think and contact again. But before I said yes or no, they sent a reject. So in a way he did not stand by his word.
U just dodged a bullet. They had a layoff recently. There was a hiring freeze and hence ur rejection.
I’m just starting the process there, do you recommend I stop? Don’t really want to waste my time. They’re also pre-ipo so it makes me iffy
@adtechbish I recommend not moving forward. Who will pour millions of dollars into advertising when the economy is turning bad?
Like others have said, you played hard ball. Seems like you weren’t happy with down leveling and the director sensed it. You say your rounds went well, then why would they down level you? Probably the feedback wasn’t as great as you’re thinking it was.
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Sounds like you played hard ball with no leverage & the other candidate accepted asap w/o a fight
The director gave me the option to choose either level and asked me to think about my decision and contact again. But I got an automated reject in just two days before even I contacted back.
And my point is not about getting the offer. It is about how you reject a candidate. After spending so much time, I did not like the way they sent an automated reject email.