I applied online online and it was nearly five weeks before a recruiter contacted me. He asked me a handful of screening questions over email, indicated he was going to schedule an interview, and then went radio silent for five days on me. I gave him a nudge at which point something was eventually scheduled. Prior to the interview, which was scheduled with the hiring manager, the recruiter called me to give me some context on the interview and the overall process. The entirety of the process sounded needlessly onerous, even for a tech interview, so I was already feeling a bit unenthused about doing even the initial call with the hiring manager, but I proceeded out of curiosity. The hiring manager Zoom call was 45 minutes and wasn't anything out of the ordinary - general background and behavioral questions. The manager came off as being a little put-out at even having to do the call, and she didn't do a very good job of hiding that she clearly wasn't very interested in me as a candidate. The whole call just felt weird. I was told I'd receive direct feedback from the recruiter within 24 hours of the call, but it took five days and the recruiter couldn't even take the time to email me directly - I got a generic auto rejection. All in all, a rather off-putting experience, but one that was for the best given what they outlined as the entirety of the hiring process - they were expecting candidates to do not one, but two separate live case studies, in addition to meeting with several sounds of other people. I've heard and participated in some onerous interview loops, but two case studies in a single loop is a new one for me. It appears I dodged a significant bullet.