Sliide Software Engineer interview questions

1: Call with the CTO for 15 minutes. The CTO did not let me get in any question, he said "This is to make sure that you know a lot about the company and so that you are interested in applying". Instead, it felt very robotic. It also felt a bit iffy that the CTO placed so much importance on "their employees being special". 2: Technical test (take-home). This test was very life-like but also pretty difficult. One was supposed to fill out an endpoint in an existing application, including creating new unit tests. That new endpoint was supposed to fetch items from "providers" and arrange them in a certain repeating order, i.e. 123 123 12. These providers also have fallback providers. The brief was a long one, around 500 words and quite tricky to understand. I sent out a list of questions about it but never received a reply. In the end, I managed to find the answers to my questions without any help and the team seemed to like my solution as they invited me to a technical interview. I found it pretty bad manners that no one replied to me though regarding my questions. 3: Interview with the team. I was interviewed again by the CTO, the lead backend engineer in Golang and a new hire, the engineering architect. The team seemed quite unprepared, they did not have a lot of questions to ask to me. The biggest portion of the interview was to walk through my coding challenge solution and we also touched on buffered and unbuffered channels in Golang. The backend lead asked me something about channels and memory allocation and was insisting that channels have to be closed in Golang to prevent memory leaks; this is not the case though according to official documentation. Anyhow, the interviewer was quite nice about it and I found the entire review genuinely helpful. The technical aspect of that interview was definitely the better half. After the technical interview, I never heard back from them. I was messaging the CTO two weeks after the interview whether there would be any updates. He said that they are waiting on another candidate to come out of sickness and that also one interviewer was sick - fair enough, but that should be communicated to the previous candidates. Especially if I'm still in the race (the CTO didn't say on me chasing it up "Oh, sorry, that won't work out"). After that point, another two weeks have now passed and I never heard back from them. As a candidate, this feels like bad manners on the company's side to not even have the courtesy of giving feedback and telling the candidate that the job has been already filled. It seems to me like the job is already filled because the job description does not appear anymore on the website. I am not salty about not having been given an offer, that is how life goes. I actually wouldn't have wanted to work there anyway, the team seemed to small and the 9am to 6pm shift didn't seem as flexible as the website has you believe. I also did not enjoy the CTO's comments about employees specialness and even him asking me at the end of the interview "What is something special we don't know yet about you?"