I hope you came across this review and that it saves you time. I am genuinely saddened by the experience I had and would never want a fellow candidate to go through something similar. Please read this carefully before investing your time, energy, and money into this process. INTERVIEW PROCESS: The process consisted of multiple rounds. The first round was a recruiter call discussing the role, compensation, and work culture. I noticed that the recruiter had left the company by the time I reached the technical interview stage. The second round was a three hour technical interview consisting of four DSA problems completed in one hour ranging from easy to hard, a 40 minute system design focused on an ad AI platform, 20 minutes of debugging including Redis-oriented problems, and a one hour machine learning design and experience discussion. The interviewer was extremely professional. The final round was an in-person culture fit interview at their San Francisco office. No travel reimbursement was provided despite candidates traveling from out of state. I had prepared thoroughly , researching the ad AI space, the company, their product, and their leadership. I wanted to make a strong impression and was genuinely excited about the opportunity. The experience was jarring. Working passionately on a product and putting in the hours to make it succeed is something most engineers genuinely want to do, and I was aligned with that culture. What caught me off guard was how the candidate was treated and how leadership chose to represent themselves. During the interview I was told that a candidate's technical ability could be judged just by looking at them — a statement I found dismissive, especially after completing a three hour technical process with their engineering team. There were comments about rejecting developers from FAANG companies and a remark about a senior engineer from Workday being fired for being too slow. There was a visible pride in being in a position to reject or let people go, which I found unsettling regardless of whether it was a pressure tactic or genuine. I was then told I had not performed well in the technical interview. The interviewers who had actually conducted the assessment were called into the room and confirmed that I had in fact performed really well. I was already aware of this. It was a revealing moment . The technical team's honest assessment and leadership's narrative were two completely different things, and the goalposts shifted immediately after. I was then told my profile did not align with what was needed. Which raises the question of why I was asked to fly to San Francisco at my own expense for this round in the first place. Not having used Cursor in my AI workflow setting was cited as a reason my skills were considered limited, followed by a comment that developers who write code are becoming redundant because agents can do it anyway. If that is genuinely the belief, it is worth asking why they conduct a four question DSA round in one hour in the first place. Comments were also made about current employees being incompetent, which made me extremely uncomfortable. A leader speaking about their own team this way to a candidate says a great deal about the culture inside. I was advised to find short term accommodation, told I would be paid less for my own benefit so they would not have to let me go, and asked to purchase my own device for work if I had to start working. The offer arrived the same evening and differed completely from the job description. Benefits including medical, dental, vision, equity, 401(k), paid time off, sick leave, life insurance, and a gym membership were all absent from the written offer despite being listed in the JD. The role title was also different from what was advertised. The offer required working from 10am to 9pm Monday through Saturday, with an expectation of seven pull requests per day at 200 or more lines of code each. The compensation offered was 6000$ pre-tax per month. Experienced professional with 5 years work, a graduate from a prestigious college in US and even did well in my interviews while having experience in ad measurement. I was completely flabbergasted. I have in my experience written a single line of code that generated significant value for a company. Output is not measured in lines. The following day I received five to six calls throughout the day pressing me to confirm my decision, despite the stated deadline being two days away. One more interesting thing was, the contrast between how leadership presents in person versus in written communication was notable. I submitted a professional counter offer referencing the original job description and asking for the advertised terms to be honored. The response was that offers are standardized and non-negotiable. Which is a difficult position to defend when the offer bears no resemblance to what was posted. I declined. I have no regrets. I will add that had I signed the offer letter, I may not have been able to write this review. Their non-disparagement clause in their contract specifically names Glassdoor. Read the reviews carefully. Take them seriously. There are better places to grow, learn, and be treated with respect. I hope this saves someone the time, energy, and personal expense this process cost me.