Madhive Senior Software Engineer interview questions

Recruiter call, architecture interview, coding interview, architecture interview, then references. I aced all the interviews (direct quote from one of the interviewers: "you're so experienced, you should be interviewing me") but the references was where this whole thing got very weird. They ask for two, I gave them two. They then come back after talking to both my references and now they need a reference from a previous manager. The process had been going on for months at this point and I knew they were interested and wanted to make me an offer, but I had to get back to some of the other companies that I had an offer with so I told them my timeline didn't really work and I needed a decision. Madhive went with a candidate that they felt "had better experience". LOL, ok. Overall a pretty poor experience, I would never work with a company that makes demands on candidates like Madhive did, but the moment someone pushes back they toss them aside. After reading the reviews on here I think I dodged a bullet.