They took over 3 months, 4 interview stages and one practical test to tell me I'm not the right candidate. The salary they offered was 15k below the market rate. The employees seemed nice, but I was interviewed by people who didn't have too much experience in the field (or at all) and the feedback I got was ridiculous, nothing related to my case study or my research. I properly made sure my research findings matched theirs and they even told me they will steal some ideas from my presentation. I laughed and saw it as a good sign - they must like me, I must have done a good job! But they ghosted me for 4 weeks and came back with a very corporate email that seemed written by someone who never attended those interviews and made up some random reasons. I heard things changed, your salaries increased and the people who interviewed me left the company, but this doesn't change the fact that I lost so much time and built so much hope for nothing. Very very embarrassing.