The interview process was great until you are asked to spend a whole afternoon meeting at least 6 people to interview you and ask you the same questions over and over again. Apparently, everyone you interview with will need to give positive feedback about you, as stated in the "Thanks, but no" email. So, if you don't get along with superficial and rather inept middle managers AND managers, you're out. This can be someone interviewing you from their office in the U.S. via videoconference on a bad mood because they have to log in at 8am / 9am in the U.S. to actually interview you and ask you the same questions you've been asked all afternoon in Dublin. I have personally never experienced middle managers or managers in finance that did not even have basic knowledge of the financial industry. It was mind boggling for me to realise that some of the "managers" I was forced to interview with had little to no knowledge of financial markets or cryptocurrencies. In fact, those interviewers will be the ones testing your "Character", you will need to be prepared to go completely U.S. "I AM SO HAPPY AND COINBASE IS MY LIFE" hype style or you will be met with uneducated "Start-up Tech Cali" girls/boys that will put you down for not being as cool as them. If you've not been hired by the typical Tech companies before like Facebook or Google, but you have been hired by relevant financial institutions/companies, you're not cool enough and you're out. My advice to anyone wishing to go from traditional finance to cryptos is: do not do it with this company. You can do better than Coinbase, it's not that hard and you will not have to go back to a high school mentality of cool and non-cool kids. This company truly does not value your skills, they just value your "vibes". You don't make money "vibing" in finance, some of the managers there should truly go back to their marketing jobs or "start-up" try hard jobs.

A strange process. I applied for one position in the company, and after the first interview for that position was informed that I wasn't a good fit for the role, but there was another role I would be a good fit for, and my information was sent over to that recruiting team. The recruiter called me the next morning and we had a quick and easy phone interview. I then went through another interview, which was easy enough - in all of these cases, interviewers were friendly, asked interesting questions, and had clearly read my resume and application. Unfortunately, things got weird from here on out. I was then asked to take the "COINSights" test online, which was dozens of in-depth, highly technical questions about Scaled-Agile Framework project management as it pertains to software development (SAFe v5.1), something entirely irrelevant to the job I was going to be doing. I somehow passed, and then had two more rounds of interviews. The first of these was at 5:30am local time and only took fifteen minutes as the interviewer, who was in Europe, had not actually prepared any questions. The next interview was a day later and was quite difficult as it was all about specifics of cryptocurrency, but I appear to have passed. After clearing all of these hurdles - four interviews and a screening - I was congratulated and scheduled for a final panel interview a week later. The morning of that final interview, I woke up to an email saying that "regretfully" they had found an "ideal" candidate for the role and would be canceling my interview. I told them I understood but asked for feedback in the event that another role opened up, and the recruiter told me he would call me later in the day to debrief. Haven't heard anything since. That was two weeks ago. For the most part, communication was great during the process and everyone was charming, but after nearly six weeks of back-and-forth scheduling, hard work, early mornings, and study, I feel a bit cheated that I wasn't given the chance to get to that final interview before a decision was made. So it goes.