I had two pretty distinct, polarizing experiences -- great with HR and awful with the hiring folks onsite (4 people). First of all, an internal recruiter reached out to me via LinkedIn about a specific role they were looking to fill, and that I had the desired knowledge and experience. Okay, sure, let's chat -- had a good, standard phone screen with the recruiter, who then set me up to speak with someone on the team. This second phone call went very well, hit it off with the peer interviewer, who immediately wanted me to come onsite. Sounds great! Overall, everything with HR was wonderful (one of the best HR experiences/processes I've been through) -- lots of communication via email and phone, including prep and tips for the onsite, quick scheduling, and answering any questions I had in between. Onsite experience was fabulous too -- greeted enthusiastically by my HR POC, given a tour, a swag bag...I felt very warmly welcomed by HR. Then came the four 1:1 interviews with various directors/managers I'd potentially be working with, including the hiring manager. Things started well enough with the first person and then rapidly went downhill afterwards. The second interviewer was cold and rude -- she didn't seem to know who I was, barely gave any eye contact/kept looking and typing on her laptop, and answered with very curt answers of 'okay,' 'right,' 'cool.' She cut the allotted interview time short as if I was bothering her and interrupting her oh so busy, important day. The third interviewer was tough, but nothing terribly out of the ordinary...it was pretty clear it wasn't the best fit, but I didn't appreciate the backhanded comment of 'you've obviously had success elsewhere...' Fourth interview was about as bad as it gets -- he came in and didn't know who I was...after giving a little detail, he was like, oh yeah, right... This person was the hiring manager and didn't seem to know who I was or cared to be there. He also didn't really make eye contact, was looking/typing on his laptop, dropped a few expletives, and also gave the overall feeling of 'why are you here/you're wasting my time.' The 3.5 hour experience was exhausting mentally and physically. Fair enough that this wasn't a good fit for either side, but I did feel misled in the sense of -- you reached out to me, you contacted me for this role , I didn't apply for this! If I wasn't the type of candidate you were really looking for, then why did you reach out in the first place?! Why did it advance all the way to onsite? Also, why bother interviewing people that you clearly didn't take the time to prep/look over their background/even act like you decently care about the interview process/hiring people for your company. There's obviously a real disconnect between HR/the peer interviewer and the higher ups. This is not a good way to try to recruit people to work for you. I took this seriously from the beginning, basically took a whole day off work, studied for several hours prior, thoughtfully analyzed your website, even made a large purchase through your app to better understand your business -- but what a complete was of my time, and yours as well. I have never felt so disrespected in all the interviews I've been through. It was a learning experience for sure, and now I know very clearly this is a company I would not want to work for and these are people I could never work with.