If you're a tech worker (data, SWE, IT, etc.) thinking about applying here....
These sc-mbags made me go through 6 rounds of interviews through 3 months, including a demeaning technical HireVue first round, recruiter round, every team member I'd work with round, hiring manger round, and then director round. Forgot to mention the room-temp IQ HR bimbo fumbled every single one of the team member rounds and sent them the wrong times, causing me to wait almost an hour in the lobby until I took it upon myself to correctly guess the interviewers' emails, which finally caught their attention and led to action. Utterly useless. After that, it was positive though.
Every round went very well. Every step of the way, the recruiter kept following up telling me I was given nothing but positive feedback and we even discussed salary range and potential time window for start date since I'd have to move. I was told after the final round that they were going to do an additional final round with the director of DS (who himself told me he is not a decision maker in the process). I worked my schedule around the holidays and my current job (at a MUCH better company mind you) to accommodate this additional final round. He ended up asking openly racist questions, specifically about an Indian colleague I had interviewed with in an earlier round (which is rich considering he barely spoke coherent English himself), and I was stunned to see the incompetence displayed from someone with a supposed PhD in Statistics. Overall, it felt fine. He said he wasn't involved himself, but that the team would meet that week and get back to me the next week. This was over 2 months ago.
After that, crickets. I followed up few weeks later with the recruiter asking for an update and thanked the interviewers and all that, nothing.
The best part is that the job posting has been reposted 3 times since then, and on Workday, my status still shows "interview". They have been trying to hire a Sr. Data Scientist and an "AI Engineer" (lmao) for months now. Everyone I know at the company has LinkedIn Premium on and has told me they are actively looking to leave now that I've reached out. The hiring manager told me this was a backfill role and they are looking to fill this role, as well as other tech roles, ASAP.... in November. LMAO.
The recruiter bimbo did let it slip that this is a new interview process they are trying out, so it appears I was simply a guinea pig for these snakes to test out their new process. Keep in mind these clowns didnt even ask Leetcode/sys design or any live coding round for an ML role. The average profile of their data/software folks is laughably below average, as is their pay.
I genuinely cannot believe that this is how this company operates, and am mad at myself for ever stooping down to this joke of a company's level, even if it would've been for a temp job while I looked for a better role in this market. Either way - don't make the same mistake I did.
Please save yourself the time... and NEVER, and I mean NEVER, EVER APPLY TO ANY JOB AT PACIFIC LIFE INSURANCE, ESPECIALLY IF IT IS A TECH/IT/DATA/SWE TYPE ROLE. Thank me later. Disgusting.