I was contacted by a recruiter and went through a series of interviews over a month. I would have a Zoom interview, wait a day or so, then have another one. After each one I kept saying to myself "surely this is the last one". This went on and on for a total of 8(!) interviews. They had me even interviewing with external contractors! In addition to 8 interviews I also had to do a test project. In the end I was not given the role because I did not have enough "years" of experience in this specific product type. BUT this was all very clear in my resume. If I had known after a month, a test project and 8 interviews that I would be turned down based on something that was clear in my resume, I would not have gone through the process. And this role was posted over 9 months ago. THIS SAME EXACT ROLE has been posted every 2 weeks since then. My feeling is, they are using young designers to get free ideas. That's at least a handful of test projects every couple of weeks. Why hire a new designer when you can crowd source free work from many designers...? I also know that the pay notoriously low so even had they offered me the job they likely would not have paid me enough to actually accept it.