This was my first interview, and I had it with their head of HR. There were very many warning flags during that interview, a first meeting, so you expect the company to be presenting its best face. The head of HR at one point said to me that they have a pretty strict culture. She gave an example of this. She said that when someone hands in {swear word} work, the response can be quite hard. And I said to her, is that an experience that you commonly have—that people hand in work that is regarded that way by their managers? And she got very defensive and went on a rant about their culture and how they have high standards, and if people are doing {swear word} work, then they should expect a response from management. This was all I needed to know. I thanked her for her time at that point, pulled out of the interview process, and was very glad that I did so, having since heard many other stories about this company since then. Hard to believe that the head of HR would use swearing language to describe the work of the engineers, and that she thought that was okay.

Automated email after applying, no face to face time to share more about the position. After the test, no concrete explanation to why my test outcome is not fitting and no answer to asking about the test outcome. In general the short experience felt impersonal and unprofessional.