I've also had a not so cool experience with them, the interviewer canceled 30 mins before the call and mentioned they will send an email to reschedule tomorrow. That was in September 2021, haven't heard back again :)
I see the hiring conversation you had back in September '21; I don't see us canceling a meeting, but I'm sure that happened. That sucks!
Getting an inscrutable Russian Nesting Doll response from the erstwhile retail sales manager of a company asking you to set up Nomad on top of Nomad and ELK on top ELK is an off-putting experience, but it's the kind of off-putting experience we're comfortable giving people: what we're talking about is either going to click, or we're probably currently not a good fit, and that's fine.
On the other hand: the experience you apparently had, of going through our process and being unceremoniously jettisoned without explanation is off-putting in a different and less tolerable way. It's something we try hard never to do, but we're a small team (much smaller in 2021) and we screw up sometimes. I apologize.
Apologies are pretty damn cheap. The excuse of being a 'small team' is bizarre. Shouldn't a 'small team', of all places at least have the courtesy of not unceremoniously jettisoning candidates? It seems to be poorly indicative of a culture to both have the callous disregard for candidate experience like a large corporation while also lacking having the resources of one.
I was applying for a infra role and they asked me to setup an app and ELK stack in nomad on fly.io... I don't think their target market has infrastructure people and it just feels like Russian dolls.
I don't get the problem. If you applied for an infra role, you are clearly not representing their target market, but they want you to show an infra thing on some VMs. And it makes sense for them to let you run those VMs on their platform, where they can easily pay for it?
Best possible interpretation if your comment is you are baffled that they asked you to use fly.io to run Nomad instead of say something “lower level” like AWS EC2 or bare metal.
Had they asked the latter you would be more enthusiastic?
Getting an inscrutable Russian Nesting Doll response from the erstwhile retail sales manager of a company asking you to set up Nomad on top of Nomad and ELK on top ELK is an off-putting experience, but it's the kind of off-putting experience we're comfortable giving people: what we're talking about is either going to click, or we're probably currently not a good fit, and that's fine.
On the other hand: the experience you apparently had, of going through our process and being unceremoniously jettisoned without explanation is off-putting in a different and less tolerable way. It's something we try hard never to do, but we're a small team (much smaller in 2021) and we screw up sometimes. I apologize.