Killian Pacific interview questions

Applied online via LinkedIn. They requested written responses to some basic questions, such as "do you have experience of managing portfolio with various property types" or "how do you prioritize". After that, two interviews were conducted, one with the hiring manager and one with the outside consultant. The interview with hiring manager seemed to gone well, but it got weird with outside consultant. I didn't hear back for two weeks after, reached out, then got a response that they decided to move on with different candidate.. but seems like they ended up not hiring anybody for the role. This kind of situation is ridiculously frustrating, especially when they ask written responses for the questions to get to the interview - now in the hindsight, I was wondering if they were just fishing for the best practices in the industry.