The process involved several steps. A phone interview, an interview with the hiring manager, interviews with a few team members and an interview with the VP. I got through all rounds and they told me about a week later that they were going with another candidate. I figured that the interview with the VP was what made them go with someone else as everyone else had indicated that I was a great candidate.

I did four interviews, and after two months of zero-contact (I messaged my contact multiple times and was ghosted for weeks at a time) was invited on-site. When I arrived, the hiring manager wouldn't talk to me or make eye-contact. We went to a meeting room, and they continued to text/go on their phone the entire time while I attempted to make small talk/ break the awkward silence of sitting in a room with a stranger who seemingly doesn't want to interact with you whatsoever. I'm talking little-to-no eye contact for the first 20 minutes I arrive in the office. After getting chewed out for "using the wrong doorbell" after following the recruiters instructions verbatim, the interviewer then tells me that the person I am supposed to be meeting with refuses to show up. So I've made my way out to their office in-person only to be stood-up, after being stood up for months already. The interviewer realizes he has to fill the next hour with non-consequential questions we've already gone over in the past 4 interviews. I get asked a lot of questions about my personal capabilities and the interviewer seems to be looking for questions he can "catch me" slipping up on - at one point I was asked "how can you prove you actually have the skills listed on your resume" like I'm a dancing bear (despite the fact that the 4 interviews prior we went through my experience multiple times, and reviewed my project contributions and success stories). I felt set up to fail from the moment I walked in the doors - realistically the office environment, cubicles, and people seemed so traditional, bleak, and uninviting that I think I dodged a bullet here.