I was contacted by an internal Senior Talent recruiter after submitting my application. My interview process was unclear and tedious: 1st call with Talent, very appropriate, lasted 30 mins. 2nd call with the hiring manager, very appropriate, lasted 1h. Then I received an email from Talent letting me know I was being processed to the next phase and would need to talk to a group of people. I was asked for availability, which I provided. 3rd call was with Talent to give me more feedback on the process. 4th-8th calls with five different people who'd be my stakeholders or team members, mostly based on San Francisco timezone, so pretty late for me (based in UK). When I provided my availability, I genuinely thought it was going to be one or two group interviews, not five individual ones of 30 mins, asking me all the same. I thought I'd smash most apart from one with an extremely junior person who seemed to be on defense mode the whole interview. On some of the other interviews, I was asked for real cases and recommendations on how to go ahead with some initiatives, and I provided lots of ideas. I followed up on my interviews, thanked them all for their time and awaited news from Talent. A week of silence later, I approached them again just to be avoided. A few days later I had a missed call from Talent. I tried to return several times, unsuccessfully. Finally, I got a short email stating that "the team didn't feel I had the right experience for the role", which came as a big surprised. I tried to follow up to get feedback on what was that they felt I lacked experience on, or what to improve for next time, only to be ignored. I never heard more from anyone in the company. When you have such a long, tedious and unclear hiring process, the least you can do is give back some feedback and offer support to your candidates, so they end with a good impression and not feeling used and discarded.