MD Clarity interview questions

Interviews took place over the course of 2 months (September and October 2023). They're looking for their first UX designer at the company, having nothing set up in Figma, and no UX or user research processes established. I heard "we're trying to decide what we want out of this role" multiple times and that should've been a huge red flag from the beginning. Part of my background is in engineering and they especially loved this at first. Interview process was as follows: 1. Recruiter screen (very friendly People Ops director) 2. Founder/CPO/hiring manager (nice enough guy) Three staff interviews, scheduled after long delay (was told to prepare for top-grading interviews, yet nothing of the sort was asked) 3. Technical PM 4. Two developers saying they needed front-end help 5. Data engineer interview, grilling me on data analysis for some reason. Prepared for data visualization best practices per the recruiter's instructions, yet we never once touched on this (I even tried mentioning Edward Tufte) Final round (all were cancelled last-minute on the day of and were rescheduled for the following day) 6. CEO (5 minutes late, wanted to see a very specific portfolio example that I didn't have) 7. CTO (5 minutes late, technical interview portion with live coding HTML/CSS layout & heuristic evaluation) with camera off 8. CPO (second interview with him) with camera off Got a rejection email saying they went with someone else, yet the job req is back up in January 2024. It's my impression that things are very disjointed internally, and they have no problem wasting your time or leading you on for months due to their own indecisiveness – especially in one of the worst tech job economies in history. Great company mission but I can't recommend applying, unfortunately.