Initially I felt I had a good experience and only as time went on it turned negative. I applied for a position and heard back from a recruiter, she was nice and I received a short take home assessment. After passing that I scheduled a 3 hour block of 1 hour coding and two 1 hour system design interviews. They went well, and after passing those I had a hiring manager interview. After doing well in all the above and receiving purely good feedback, no negatives from any point in the process, I was passed on in favor of another candidate with a promise to reach out as soon as another position in the team opens up and being told to reach out in case I see a different relevant position. This is all fine, but when I did indeed reach out regarding new positions on their careers page I was told there were other candidates in the same position as me and I should wait for the team I previously interviewed for to open up a new role. Even when applying about 5 months later to an entirely different position with a different recruiter - they synced with the previous recruiter and said "..it would be best to wait for a role in the (previous role) domain..." after they mentioned I have some sort of "domain specific experience"(which I absolutely do not). This left me extremely confused and disappointed - after having a positive experience previously this was frustrating and disheartening.