also had a pretty negative interview experience with DDG.
Interviewer mentioned also that they were a "security company" not "a search engine company", which raised an eyebrow.
Additionally mentioned; all employees are contractors but may not be part of a limited company (even the employees own), they must be sole trader (which means you are unable to do anything tax related with benefits).
Interview experience came off as quite arrogant, as if they were doing me a favour by interviewing me. Strange.
We all agree that interviews should not be negative experiences and so on, but posting like this breaks the rules at the top of the thread, so I've detached it from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39219681.
- Long interview process (2mo+)
- Not serious about hiring engineers, seeking project managers instead