Process started with an email from Recruiter asking you to answer several questions about your years experience plus expected comp. After that I was setup to speak to the hiring manager. This was a great call, great conversation and ability to ask and understand more about the role. Then it went to a small 2 person panel interview where it was a bit more technical. Again it was very conversational and seemed to be more about experience and the IT landscape. Then it went dark. I mean I was expecting a 3rd interview or something... but the recruiter left me hanging. After a 2.5 weeks of no response I withdrew.

Interview consisted of a phone screen by recruiter easy enough. Then a phone call with the hiring manager that was simple and easy. There was a panel interview with the hiring manager and the cloud engineering team. Then an on-site interview with the Director of the department. All in all took about 3-4 weeks. All in all I enjoyed the talks I had with the team, the hiring manager and the director it was the recruiter who really turned me off from the position and the company as a whole. The recruiter presented me with an offer that I felt was little low about $5k low to be exact. Now this is nothing out of the ordinary. I have had companies offer below desirable salaries before this is nothing new. I have pushed $10k and gotten it. It's all part of the process. Sometimes it's yes. Sometimes it's no, we're at our ceiling for this role. They'll ask if that will be ok. If so you accept if not you decline you move on. So I'm thinking let's negotiate. I asked the recruiter if it would be possible to push to an increase of $5k. This would bring them inline with the other offers I received. This is where it took a drastic turn. The recruiter began to tell me about what I lacked and that I was missing this and that that the rest of the team had. From what I could tell and was repeatedly told was the team was fairly new to the cloud. I had been launching Cloud Infrastructure for nearly 4-5yrs, total IT experience around 15yrs, from the ground up and then also launching apps on said infrastructure. I have done this in multiple cloud providers. So I was taken aback when she tried to convince me of how unqualified I was for this position. Her attitude was extremely off-putting. After her a few minutes of her bashing, she told me she was go have the necessary conversations to see what could be done. I thanked her and awaited her return call. About 2 days later she calls to say they couldn't go any higher and I said ok. She told me that she was send out the offer letter and that I had three days to decide whether or not I would accept. I said thats fine and awaited the email which never came. The next day she calls me to say because I declined the initial offer that they would be rescinding their offer all together . That was a new thing for me. It would seem that TIAA does not allow negotiation of salary. Almost seems like it was done out of spite, just to be petty. Sort of like "I'm going to dump you before you get a chance to dump me" attitude. Needless to say the negotiation phase needs some work.