A few years ago, while I was still employed, I was interviewed for technical position in a local hedge fund. VERY tough interview. The second interview was even worse, and the third interview was the toughest technical interview I ever had to go through in my entire career. I knew I didn’t pass.

A week passes, I don’t hear anything. I send an email to the recruiter who was my contact person – no response. I send another, no response. I repeat this with my first interviewer – no response. I repeat with my second interviewer – no response. I assumed I did not get the job, but 3 different people ignoring me multiple times by email? That’s extremely unprofessional.

Two months later I get a mass email from some senior guy at the company telling me about their quarterly results (from some reason I was included). I send him an email: “your guys were not polite enough to respond to any of my emails about a job that I probably didn’t get, yet they included me in their mass email list? I think this is unprofessional and impolite”. He responds almost immediately and apologizes. 30 minutes later I get an email from the first contact person, admitting he never got back to me, and apologizing for this.

Later I found out the guy who sent the mass email was the co-founder of the company. I got such a kick imagining how embarrassing this must’ve been for the recruiter, being summoned by the big boss and forced to send me an apology. If he had done his job properly, he wouldn’t have been in that state. Clearly the HR interviews were not as rigorous as the technical ones!

Especially in mobile market, Europe and some Asian countries are way ahead of US.

8 figures is unheard of except Mr. Mark from plentyoffish.com. I guess they operate as a real company instead of one man band if they can generate this kind of money.

Their lost. If they had bothered to ask anything else, I could’ve told them I’ve done pretty well for myself. It’s still a learning process but still. I won’t be applying again.