I was not particularly impressed with the interview process at Everlaw. First step after the job application was a 15-minute initial screen with a recruiter. Nothing out of the ordinary here, we went over the typical job description, outline of the interview process and basic compatibility questions. The first issue arose when scheduling the tech screen. I received an email from the recruiter that appeared completely identical to the first email to schedule the first chat, including verbatim copy. I replied asking if it was sent by mistake since we had just chatted yesterday; the recruiter followed up to clarify that it was indeed the email to schedule the tech screen. Okay, small hiccup but no big deal. Scheduled my coding round for the next week. The day of my next interview, I hopped on Zoom for the coding challenge. I was supposed to have two interviewers, but one of them never showed up. The one who did arrive asked for my email address to send over the prompt for the coding challenge. I found this very old school in an era where collaborative tools for coding interviews like Hackerrank are so ubiquitous. But okay, sure. I went over the problem description with them and did a small example by hand / asked some clarifying questions before diving in. For this round, I had 1 hour to complete the problem on my own without supervision before rejoining the Zoom meeting to go over my solution. No problem - I completed the challenge and logged back on after one hour passed. The interviewer was 5 minutes late rejoining the meeting, and seemed lost and unsure of how to lead the debrief discussion. I shared my screen to walk through my code and solution. They didn't provide any validation or other signals that what I did was correct or incorrect. After I finished explaining my implementation, they asked me to send them the actual code file via email reply to the interview prompt. Again, bizarrely old school. I asked them a few questions about the role and logged off. Two days later I received a generic rejection email from the recruiter. Overall, I felt a sense of disorganization and disengagement from the people I interacted with at Everlaw. In an era where other tech companies from small startup to large corporation have detailed candidate prep guides and modern collaboration tools, this experience felt outdated and underdeveloped. I think Everlaw could do a better job in their interviewing process to help set their candidates up for success and provide a smoother experience.