Applied online, was called somewhat quickly and we booked a direct call with the hiring manager; someone quite experienced in the field and a good leader, that I would certainly loved to have worked with. Due to extensive research I had conducted via Glassdoor, mothership finance report, previous holders of office, rest of management crew and their change; my expectations (albeit high for hiring manager) were, I have to say, low. iPipeline is an interesting org, with good innovations done in the past; but is suffering some good talent attrition, eventually due to low salaries being paid outside of US, competition, etc. They obviously understand the risks they are trying to manage; but their corporate structure doesn't allow for proper management and investment in state of the art technology; on the contrary my impression was negative regarding budget to conduct proper risk AND management of data at scale. We had a very honest conversation about some of the challenges; but considering feedback received it's clear that some risk areas are being seen in a very siloed way, a mistake when you deal with huge amounts of data (vs. platform and cloud and AI on top plays). For a company that supposedly wants to reach IPO... I'm sorry but your actions don't match your official desires. End of the day, an IPO is reached when everyone puts their cards in the table, vulnerabilities have a sound regulatory plan to be addressed and you pay talent what it's worth, not -50% of market value (IPO means shares, this wasn't even on the table). Considering the global regulatory risk, both at home and EU; growing such markets without a strong regulatory oversight is a disaster waiting to happen. If I would have progressed we would have to discuss this; but I guess it was clear I'm not the sort of person to run from a hard conversation. Maybe that wasn't what the company was looking for, so I'm very glad I've dodged this bullet.