The interview was quite casual, yet very insightful. The interviewer gets to explain much about the company, and I also get the chance to ask them several questions. A normal first-stage interview on a typical MNC.

I applied via linkedIn and was contacted by their recruiter to setup an initial phone screen. The call lasted about 45min and the recruiter was able to clearly lay out the role of the job, the overall structure of the team and how the workload was spread across the team. About a week after the initial phone screen, the recruiter scheduled me for a phone screen with the hiring manager. On the day of the phone screen, the hiring manager didn't dial me until after 30min later. He emphatically apologized for being late and said he just "messed up". This didn't really give me a very good impression of the hiring manager or the company. Nonetheless he proceeded to suggest we connect later or that he could move his appointments around. Eventually, I decided that it would be best to have this call now while he is on the line since this call wasn't a priority to him to begin with. The hiring manager was also very brief in his responses to some of my questions and left me with the impression that I was wasting his time (and mine as well!). The hiring manager mentioned that there would be two rounds of onsite interviews and proceeded to tell me that the recruiter would follow-up in about a week's time concerning next-steps. I received the rejection email the following week from the recruiter. I asked the recruiter to give any feedback that the hiring manager might have offered, but haven't heard back from the recruiter.