I'm sharing my experience of interviewing at Confluence Sydney. I applied through their website for the position of a Senior Technical Writer, this happened after the team member advised me to do so while we were connected on a professional community. The only pro I experienced was that the HR shortlisted my application and sent out an email to me quite swiftly. However, I also credit my own experience and skillset in the applied position for this (7 years into core tech). This is the section that I will be filling up the most. After the initial email from the HR, I was asked to speak to her remotely. The HR was very unprofessional and made me wait for about 20 mins before she joined the call. Post the call, I was given a writing task which I submitted after 2 days. I waited for some form of acknowledgement from the HR and on not getting any I wrote to her after 3 days of submission only to learn that the HR apparently did not receive the attachment of the assignment. This was bizarre considering the kind of silence from her end when she received my email but not the attachment. Even if that was true, she expected me to magically imagine the scenario and check with her from my end- which I actually did because I was looking for just the acknowledgement that she had received it. The strange part comes now. The very day I sent her the attachment again (within a matter of few hours considering the time zone difference and the actual working hours), and she assured me that she received it, I got an email saying they would not be proceeding with my application. While there can be multiple facets to this, what I only expected was some honesty from the HR because the way she interacted seemed shady as well as suspicious. I’m not convinced she even got my work reviewed because in all her interactions, she was sloppy and took no responsibility. Even if they weren't convinced about my candidature, it would have not left me with a bad taste if the HR had been a little professional and not been so outrightly dishonest and lying.