Land Trust Alliance interview questions

The interview consisted of three steps (if successful), of which I was informed of immediately. The first, a 30-minute phone call with HR, the second was a Zoom call with the immediate team members and the third was a Zoom call with the immediate team members and leadership. This dragged on for over two months. The HR rep was professional and polite throughout the entire process until the very end. They decided to promote one of the people interviewing me (immediate team member) to the position that I was applying for. After three rounds of interviews I was then ghosted by HR and the individual that took the position. When I reached out to HR she contradicted the application process, dropped the professional tone, which surprised me given our past correspondences, and made several weird excuses. It isn't hard to look up the staff and see that the interviewer was promoted to the title I applied for in the same month as my last interview. I took time off from work multiple times and went through two months of interviewing when the Land Trust Alliance decided to hire from within, and with the actual interviewer. An email could have at least been provided, when you drag someone along for over two months to the final rounds of an interview, the interviewee is going to expect some form of communication, I thought this was basic HR knowledge. I was extremely fortunate to find another position shortly after this waste of time. I was surprised and saddened this organization would conduct itself in this way. Honesty and integrity are missing from this organization and knowing this, I will never apply to them again.