The recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn, and asked for a time to meet. It was a simple conversation, to understand the company and background. She explained that the process has 8 phases counting that one... and it shouldn't take so long because they were in hurry to hire someone. Send me a form with several behavior questions for cultural fit (awful the cliche sentences), after 2 weeks and asking the recruiter if they had some answer, they invited me for a technical conversation. I met with the tech lead, he asked me questions about HTML (meta tags, SEO, tags), CSS (display grid, center things), JS (var, let, and const and some array methods), and React (hooks, state, and others). After 10 minutes they returned asking for a meeting with the engineering director. 1-hour conversation with the guy, he explains the company, and his duties and asks about your background. After this introduction, he started to ask some random questions to see your profile, like tell me one quality and a flaw, teach me in 3 minutes something that you know to do without professional relation, and what a startup should prioritize. At this point, we didn't agree (in his vision, developers must prioritize delivery and not a good quality delivery). In parallel, they ask for your 3 past salaries to make an offer and 3 references. It took almost 2 weeks after my last interview with the director to tell me that I didn't move forward with the process, no feedback. But they offer you to recommend someone to work with them for an exchange bonus if the person gets hired. The process is confusing and long, you don't if the company is ghosting you. You can see a lot of red flags talking with the staff (they have half things implemented because they don't have time to finish, they have several products and one team, and the director doesn't see value in good quality code just delivery it, they don't tell the salary range because they'll make a unique offer based on your 3 past salaries range and so on) and they don't offer one peace of feedback after taking a lot of interviews. The paragraph offering the `Professional Recommendation Program` is longer than the why they aren't moving forward with you in the process.