SamaCare interview questions

The interview process is very long and dragged out. I went through 3 interviews beginning in May and finally ending in July with a auto generated email stating they had decided to “ move forward with a candidate whose qualifications more closely align with the specific requirements of this position.” My question is why drag me along through 3 interviews if my qualifications didn’t align with the position? I would not recommend interviewing with this “start up” company who obviously has more to learn regarding how to treat potential candidates.

I applied for this position via LinkedIn. First interview was a basic screening call with a recruiter. Once that was cleared and expectations were set, I had a call scheduled with the Hiring Manager from SamaCare. This interview was done via Zoom and questions were mostly situation based. I was then given a take home assignment with great instructions and another interview was scheduled to present with the hiring manager. The next interview was with a team member, where they asked situation based questions and I was asked to interpret a data set. The last interview was onsite, and lasted a few hours and I met with several leadership members and team members, where they asked a few situation based questions, but mostly it was conversational. As the end I was given a verbal offer at the end and I accepted!