Interview Experience - Cardlytics
My fiance got laid off on June 17th this year (used to gig at Visa, as a senior data engineer, on a H1-B) and he's been actively interviewing since. He interviewed with this Atlanta based company called Cardlytics, and it was the worst background of his life.
The company interviewed him for over a month, he had 6 stages with them. So many things they did wrong - flunked to enquire his work visa status, kept rescheduling interviews multiple times, and informed him very late into the interview process that he needed to code in Java and Scala (while most interviews are language agnostic).
He managed to clear all 6 rounds (unlearned and learned Java just for this interview, learnt so many new concepts), and he was even offered a job. But they withdrew the offer purely because their immigration crew didn't cooperate with them citing his visa timeline reasons, and that they weren't willing to take the risk of filing his PERM with a little over 2 years on his H1-B left.
Folks with a gig visa - PLEASE NEVER WORK WITH THEM/APPLY FOR ROLES OPENED BY THEM.
Employers - Please be more empathetic. Never depart your candidates hanging.
The recruiter who interviewed him in the first round has been fired since she failed to enquire all information regarding his work status from him (not enough but sure) There may be countless people in the US right now in a state like this. There is such a huge talent pool hunting for work right now. This market is already so brutal, and there are companies not willing to bring on. When will this even conclude?