This was not a great interview process. The interviews themselves were good. However, the after interview processes were less than to be desired. I had a recruiter reach out to me who was amazing through all of the entire process. That's where it ended. The recruiter reached out the next day after I had replied to their posting to schedule an interview and scheduled our interview for 10 days later. That interview was great they told me how much they liked my experience and what they shared excited me so much about the role. I ended up with a second interview with the hiring manager that went really well and I felt like the hiring manager and I really connected well too. However, this was after we had missed the first interview because the interview wasn't properly set for either of us and apparently the hiring manager had one zoom room they were in and I was in a separate zoom meeting that was sent to me for the interview. Regardless of their glitches on their end I was still excited. 10 days after that I was told "Thanks but we went another direction" after being told I would hear back in 24 hours one way or another. Then fast forward a month and a half later I had the same recruiter reach out again wondering if I was still looking for a job and if I would still be interested in the role and that they didn't have a lot of info for me yet, but wanted to gauge my interest. I replied I was and I soon got a call. I was informed that apparently I was the second choice and that it was apparently not going to be working out with whom they did hire. (While they didn't explicitly say that person was being let go they hinted that was the case). I was told that the director there was excited to speak with me. Five days went by and I reached back out to see where it stood only to be told that they [the recruiter] had been out but was back in office and that they would be meeting with this director in a couple hours and that they [the recruiter] would reply back that same day with any updates one way or another. Only to not get a reply of any kind until after I had to reach back out myself to check in week later. It was at this point I find out the director who allegedly wanted to meet with me wanted to go with an internal candidate. Based on what I had been told, this role was for their new office here and that existing internal employees up for the role would have been from out of state. So got the complete run around all for a company that said they wanted me to turn around and decide spening more money on internal transfer and physical relocation for this role. The company just dragged along a candidate to spend more money in the end to fill a role and it felt like they decided to take me along for the ride in the process.