I applied to this company after seeing a job post on LinkedIn and sent my CV. They quickly reached out and invited me for a first interview. It was very informal and relaxed, and it went well. I was then invited to a second interview with the sales team, which also went well. The next step was to prepare a case study on “Where I see myself in 3, 6, 9 months.” I presented it in a third interview, and again, the feedback was very positive. The whole process up to that point took around two weeks. A couple of days later, I received an email saying they enjoyed my presentation and wanted to move forward by taking references. I provided two references, but they said one couldn’t answer their questions due to company policy, so they asked me for a third one. I complied. At that point, they told me clearly that I had no more competition left and that the next step was the offer. That’s when everything started dragging. For an entire week, I heard nothing. Then, on a Tuesday, I received an email saying they couldn’t finalize the offer because “one of the managers was offline.” Another week of silence followed. Then, again on a Tuesday, I received another email saying: “I’ve received a green light from the managers and we’re officially moving forward to the offer stage. Let me confirm all the details as we’ve been waiting for a while (I want to make sure the offer I present to you is the best and reflects the conditions properly), and present them to you on a call?” After this, I waited one more week of silence. Finally, on a Monday, I received an email saying they had decided not to move forward with my application because they were “unsure about their 2026 budget.” This means they kept me hanging for almost two months, constantly saying I had the offer coming, while in reality they never intended to finalize it. They asked for multiple references, they had me prepare case studies, they reassured me I had no competition, and they strung me along with excuses about managers being “offline” and delays that were clearly not true. In my view, this was dishonest, unprofessional, and disrespectful to me as a candidate. I invested time, energy, and effort into their process preparing documents, providing references, making myself available and in return, I was misled and kept from focusing on other opportunities. My advice: If you apply to this company, do not pause your job search until you actually receive a signed offer letter. Based on my experience, I would strongly advise candidates to stay away. If this is how they treat people they’re trying to hire, I can only imagine how they treat their employees.