Not related at all but I interviewed for Trello in 2016, the meeting was super cool (video call in the browser, nice RH girl apparently very excited about my profile), the job was full remote, they needed help to move from Backbone to React and they have millions of users (!) so I was quite hyped. Then I received an email of refusal from another guy containing only a quote from the CEO. I asked for feedback (probably my spoken english was not good enough but I wanted a confirmation) and the guy replied me that he couldn't say anything for legal reasons... and the same quote from the CEO. Cold shower experience.
About the topic: we used JIRA in my last job and it was not that bad. Curious to see what they are going to do with Trello.
I just looked at my emails and actually my message was not exactly accurate. I received the refusal from the CEO and this email contained the following phrase:
> sometimes we have to make very painful choices and pass over some extraordinarily promising candidates.
Then I asked for feedback and the next reply from the recruiting team quoted this phrase.
They didn't give me any feedbacks for legal reasons (?).
Yes - that's very typical for US companies, because they're afraid of being sued. It definitely shouldn't be read as cold or uncaring on the part of the people responding to you; the worst that can be said is that they were paying too much attention to their lawyers. :D
About the topic: we used JIRA in my last job and it was not that bad. Curious to see what they are going to do with Trello.