Applied on career page for the lab but no response for most of the year. Cold emailed a senior scientist that I thought might be connected to the job posting. I got lucky and got it right. Shortly afterward, pending project funding, I progressed through a phone HR interview and a round of brief phone discussions with hiring committee. I was then brought on site for a full day interview that started with me presenting an hour long seminar on my research and ended with one on one meetings with the hiring committee members.

I applied the postdoc position (cold apply without contacting PI), wait for 2 weeks, but got no reply about the prescreening. And there is also no notification email about the prescreen results.