There was no traditional interview. I was contacted by Talent Ops, told I’d been “shortlisted” for an AI Training Expert role, and asked to complete onboarding (NDA + independent contractor agreement) on an urgent timeline. After signing the NDA, I was sent a standard contract via PandaDoc. The agreement had some unusual terms around intellectual property, device monitoring, and non-solicitation. I tried repeatedly, over several weeks, to get a very simple written confirmation so the contract would match what their team said in email. Despite multiple polite follow-ups and even reaching out to leadership, I never received that confirmation or a clear yes/no on whether they were moving forward. In practice, the “interview process” felt like: urgent request to sign, then weeks of non-communication and no clear decision. I held time and turned down other work based on their initial urgency, then was effectively ghosted when I raised reasonable contract concerns.