I applied online. I interviewed at ActiveCampaign in Jun 2026
Interview
The most unprofessional recruitment experience I have ever encountered. After approving my CV, HR scheduled a specific time and date for an interview. I joined the meeting on time, but the recruiter completely ghosted me and never showed up. To make matters worse, I never received any follow-up, explanation, apology, or even a standard rejection email. Complete radio silence after standing me up. Total lack of respect for a candidate's time.
I applied online. I interviewed at ActiveCampaign (Chicago, IL) in Feb 2026
Interview
I had a very frustrating experience with this company’s hiring process.
The process involved four interview rounds and a fairly extensive technical assessment. I spent a significant amount of time working on the assignment, including late nights designing and presenting a detailed automated embording solution. As part of the process, I created a Loom demo explaining the system architecture, implementation approach, and design decisions in depth.
After submitting everything and walking through the solution during interviews, I never received any update or feedback about the outcome of my application.
What made this particularly disappointing is that I could see my Loom demo being viewed multiple times (9 views). This indicates the material was reviewed internally, yet no one took the time to provide even a short response, feedback, or a final decision.
From a candidate’s perspective, it felt like a substantial amount of engineering work and detailed implementation thinking was extracted during the interview process without proper closure or respect for the time invested.
Technical assessments should evaluate a candidate’s skills, but when they require deep architectural design and detailed explanations, companies should at least provide transparency and follow-up afterward.
Going through four interviews and delivering a full technical production ready solution only to receive complete silence left a very negative impression.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a CI/CD pipeline for managing an Okta instance and EC2 or ECS/EKS server set.
We're not looking for any specific solution/s or a particular format. It is open-ended by nature as our Systems Engineer will often be presented with a problem that may have countless answers.
To keep things moving, we ask that you submit your solution within 1 week. If that is not feasible, we can definitely accommodate - just let us know.
Open Minded ,Polite, Interviewer was interesting, They sent Home Assessment, I decided ...he asked about NginX ingress like,: I never actually used Engine X ingress. What was the main benefit you saw moving to be over at next single and just to confirm my understanding, so, prior to migrating to engineering, to be you had a like what a web server there was running Engine X? That would uh then received outbound requests and then using Engine X ingress, correct?