I began my interview process with a pleasant discussion with the Head of Data, who was also the hiring manager. We spent about two hours going over my CV, and discussing my technical and managerial experiences. I received very positive feedback and moved on to a technical assignment, which involved both design and implementation. I dedicated considerable time and effort to complete this task well. After submitting the assignment, I had a productive discussion with two nice engineers a machine learning engineer and a data scientist regarding the task. The feedback was once again very positive, propelling me to the final stage. This stage was supposed to be a casual conversation with one of the co-founders about my interest and motivation for joining the company. However, the final stage was not as described. Instead of a casual conversation with the co-founder, I was interviewed by an HR representative and the co-founder, who also was a co-CEO. I was asked many of the same technical and cultural questions from my initial interview. It became clear halfway through that the earlier stages had lost their relevance in this final evaluation. The co-CEO's approach in this interview revealed a level of micromanagement that caused me concern about the company's leadership. Despite my initial enthusiasm to join the company due to its vision and team, the experience during the last stage changed my perspective. Unfortunately, I received a rejection two days later. This experience highlighted for me how micro-management at the executive level can potentially affect a company negatively.