It's so interesting to hear this one, I interviewed with them because I had some random linked in notification, I use their product, I wanted to be a part of it and I worked on a similar proprietary platform with live tv. Loved that work.
From the job spec, I was maybe over qualified but it was Plex, it's sitting in my NAS, remote servers phone and tablets, purchased multiple time from their odd monetary system with iOS.
It's a great product I was happy to get behind. The interview process was non-existent. One person spoke to me high level, maybe 20 mins, I imagined an intro to the interview process, I was happy in my job to not worry, I wasn't looking, it was plex in a random linkedin email, after a week I get a call.
"Everything great, we are excited etc etc, when would be good to talk to some of our 'engineers' ?"
Organised for 15 days ahead as I knew there was a release coming (a release for who I worked for) earlier so wanted to be fresh.
12 days passed with no feedback. I email the whole CC of email to confirm.
No response. To this day. :)
Flaky. Amazing product but bad business choices. I really do feel bad for the employees in this case because if they're even half of me, they wanted to do some good work.
Edit: Clarity context - And grammar.
I would like to point out too, within those 5 years they could have changed. Hired better (seems not)