The job seemed promising. They were taking a few newly graduated college students to train them without prior knowledge of Quality Assurance. The first interview went smoothly. I was told I would speak to a manager over one of the American sites that I would be working at for the second interview. This interview was conducted a week later, and it went over well. The manager said there might be more interviews, but he didn't know exactly. He mentioned I was a top candidate already for the job. This is where the next month and a half of dragging began. I had a couple of interviews with HR, and with some Ukrainian recruiters over the next month. Everyone I talked with was very unorganized, didn't exactly know what I would be doing, would start interviews not knowing what I was applying for, and some interviews would just be complete repeats of the previous ones. They would frequently cancel interviews hours before, and reschedule them for "maybe sometime in the next week or so." Each interview I was told how I was a "top candidate," until the final interview. This final interview was conducted over a Skype call with a group of Ukrainian management women who were completely unengaging, whose english skills were all over the place, and would ask incoherent questions while expecting some sort of straight answer. It was a complete guessing game. Their language skills were choppy and robotic, but were completely rude when I couldn't understand what exactly they were getting at. The words made sense--just not together. But they strangely possessed a false confidence--as if they themselves knew they were just as good as native speakers. Everything they said was with a hint of nasty sarcasm, and they kept flip-flopping between tech questions only an engineer would already know, or picking apart parts of my personality that they felt were like flaws. When in reality, they seemed to have no skills in communicating well with Americans, or understanding the nuances in our speech and culture. "You stopped smiling when you started talking about computers--therefore you don't like them, and you probably are not a good fit for this job." No. I was actually very comfortable talking about the subject, so I relaxed more. If I didn't think I would be a fit, then I probably wouldn't still be interviewing with your company after a month and a half of you dragging me along, telling me that I'm great, and low-balling me in the end. All-in-all, this company is completely unprofessional, disorganized, and does not know how to treat it's applicants. If you will be applying for a position where you will be expected to engage with the Ukrainian side of the company, your Russian will not save you as even if you speak in this language as they will only speak back to you in robotic broken english. Get ready to wake up for countless early morning interviews only to find an email indicating they were cancelled hours before--without including a date for the next interview. Be prepared to play the waiting game as the American side of the company praises you, while the Ukrainian side treats you like garbage--all while trying to front professionalism. My advice is this. Run away and apply elsewhere.

The job seemed promising. They were taking a few newly graduated college students to train them without prior knowledge of Quality Assurance. The first interview went smoothly. I was told I would speak to a manager over one of the American sites that I would be working at for the second interview. This interview was conducted a week later, and it went over well. The manager said there might be more interviews, but he didn't know exactly. He mentioned I was a top candidate already for the job. This is where the next month and a half of dragging began. I had a couple of interviews with HR, and with some Ukrainian recruiters over the next month. Everyone I talked with was very unorganized, didn't exactly know what I would be doing, would start interviews not knowing what I was applying for, and some interviews would just be complete repeats of the previous ones. They would frequently cancel interviews hours before, and reschedule them for "maybe sometime in the next week or so." Each interview I was told how I was a "top candidate," until the final interview. This final interview was conducted over a Skype call with a group of Ukrainian management women who were completely unengaging, whose english skills were all over the place, and would ask incoherent questions while expecting some sort of straight answer. It was a complete guessing game. Their language skills were choppy and robotic, but were completely rude when I couldn't understand what exactly they were getting at. The words made sense--just not together. But they strangely possessed a false confidence--as if they themselves knew they were just as good as native speakers. Everything they said was with a hint of nasty sarcasm, and they kept flip-flopping between tech questions only an engineer would already know, or picking apart parts of my personality that they felt were like flaws. When in reality, they seemed to have no skills in communicating well with Americans, or understanding the nuances in our speech and culture. "You stopped smiling when you started talking about computers--therefore you don't like them, and you probably are not a good fit for this job." No. I was actually very comfortable talking about the subject, so I relaxed more. If I didn't think I would be a fit, then I probably wouldn't still be interviewing with your company after a month and a half of you dragging me along, telling me that I'm great, and low-balling me in the end. All-in-all, this company is completely unprofessional, disorganized, and does not know how to treat it's applicants. If you will be applying for a position where you will be expected to engage with the Ukrainian side of the company, your Russian will not save you as even if you speak in this language as they will only speak back to you in robotic broken english. Get ready to wake up for countless early morning interviews only to find an email indicating they were cancelled hours before--without including a date for the next interview. Be prepared to play the waiting game as the American side of the company praises you, while the Ukrainian side treats you like garbage--all while trying to front professionalism. My advice is this. Run away and apply elsewhere.