Initially met with hiring manager via online/virtual, then in-person interview facilitated by six panel members. Pretty standard interview process and although I thoroughly enjoyed speaking with the main hiring manager, I would have appreciated a much more professional approach to following up with candidates. Indeed, even if the hiring manager did not want to move forward with my application, it should have been on the part of either HR or the hiring manager to communicate their decision to me (i.e. the candidate). To add insult to injury, I was a student at Columbia, paid my tuition as well as interned for the institution so I expected much better out of their hiring process. Overall recommendation would be for senior/executive-level management to actively assess the hiring process because it can potentially turn a number of top quality candidates away and in the other direction of an alternate educational institution.

I got an interview with 5 people from the team, rotating to ask questions. The interview was very pleasant, and there were both general questions like "why do you want to join the team" and more deep-dive questions like "share your design process". After my interview I did not hear back at all, and when I wrote HR, they instructed me to write someone else and after having written, I still did not hear anything. I received a rejection letter after about 4 months of being ghosted...