2-3 meetings with the recruiter Joe Carr, 2 meetings with technical resources on 1:1 calls for around 1 hour each, 1 final presentation on a non-work related topic with Senior Management and my team lead.

I was referred to Simplus by a mutual industry colleague. I spoke first with the Talent/HR rep; my second call was with one of the people who runs the Strategy group; then I had a third interview with another senior-level person from the Strategy group. After that call, I was told to await scheduling for a call with someone in the local office—and an on-site visit. All of these calls were great, and left me with a terrific impression of the company, the work, and the culture. The conversations culminated with me being explicitly told that they were looking forward to having me in for a visit. And then I was just straight up GHOSTED. Follow-up emails to the people I spoke with all went unanswered. I never heard anything in the months after. This was one of the most bizarre experiences of my professional life, particularly given the fact that I was referred in, I am an experienced professional in the field, and we all know people and clients in common. To this day, I have no idea what the rationale was, or why I never even got a basic form-letter rejection or communication of any kind. This was starkly inconsistent with all of the great things I had been told (and read) about this company, and it was inconsistent with the actual conversations I had with multiple people. Utterly bizarre.