I applied via their website and was contacted by email two days later to arrange a Skype interview. It took some finagling for them to schedule the Skype interview because it was with two (very busy) people, so it ultimately took place five days later. It was a very standard interview, with some behavioral questions and a lot of interest in the day-to-day responsibilities of my current job and how they would translate to the position I was interviewing for. I thought it went well, overall. The next day, I was contacted again to say that they were interested in moving me forward in the interview process, to the "audition" phase. The audition was a project related to the type of work the position would require, and I had 72 hours to complete it. I was told most people choose to get the audition on a Friday so they have the weekend to work on it, which is what I opted to do. But it turned out to be a very easy project, and I returned it that same day. I hadn't heard anything for six days when I got another email saying that they loved my audition and wanted to bring me in for an in-person interview. The interview took place four days later. This was a grueling process which consisted of four 30-minute meetings with a total of ten different people-- including the CEO. Some of their questions were a bit redundant between the groups, though in some cases that allowed me to finesse my answers as I moved through them. With the exception of the CEO interview, which was basically a rapid-fire interrogation, the interviews were very conversational and no one asked any of those annoying questions that require you to debase yourself or any google-type brain teasers. I mostly attribute this to the fact that I was meeting with my peers-- not "professional interviewers." It made it a bit less intimidating. Not 30 minutes after I left the building, the HR representative called and asked if it would be okay for her to contact my references. I took that to be a great sign. She called two of my references the next day, and the third the day after that (they played phone tag for a while). When I spoke with my references, they seemed confident I would be offered the job. The only potentially negative thing that one of my references shared with me was that they expressed concern that I might be "too nice." In the meantime, I hand-wrote thank you cards to all the people I met with and sent them to the office the day after my interview. One week after my in-person interview, I got the official kiss-off. I was not given specific feedback, and was instead told that they had decided to move forward with another, more qualified candidate. I was definitely disappointed given all the time and energy I had put into the process, and wrote back that same day to politely request more specific feedback. Ten days later, I got a long-winded email from a different HR rep that could have been condensed to a single sentence--"Sorry, we don't give feedback." Honestly that would have been better than the roundabout email I got that explained in laborious detail why they don't have time to give feedback. Seriously? If you have time to write me a three paragraph excuse, you have time to give me a single sentence of feedback. But I digress. Several months later, I'm still on the job hunt. A few days ago, I saw another Jellyvision job posting with an identical job description, but a different title. Though I was a bit put off by the whole feedback thing, I contacted the HR rep again to see if it might be advantageous to apply for the position. The next day, a different HR person (coincidentally the same one who fed me the "too busy" excuse before) wrote to say that A] the HR rep I'd been dealing with before had left to "pursue other opportunities" (uh huh) and B] that the new position I'd found was the same one I interviewed for before, simply rebranded for broader appeal. The implication being that I should not bother applying again. So much for a more qualified candidate. Now, I did my research on Jellyvision before I even applied. I knew going into it that the interview process would be tough, and that they are keenly interested in finding the "right fit" for every position. I get that, and I can certainly accept if I wasn't a fit for their company culture for some reason. But I am frustrated by the inconsistent information I got from HR. And I'm definitely annoyed by the very real possibility that I may have not gotten the job because I was TOO nice. I mean, how else are you supposed to act at an interview? And their job posting specifically mentioned that they only hire nice people to begin with. So there's that. In summary, interviewing with Jellyvision was as intense as I expected. But the fact that I made it so far in the hiring process and yet the position remains open three months later does make me wonder if they lack clear criteria for filling these vacant positions.