While welcoming and supportive, my overall recruitment process was a long and often frustrating experience. Everyone involved was lovely, and the people I chatted with one on one were so wonderful. My recruiter responded to my questions immediately and helped as much as they could. My overarching complaint concerns a lack of transparency in the process that made me feel like my time was not being valued. In the beginning, my recruiter seemed to have a clear plan about the process and next steps. As the process continued, the hiring team kept adding new interviews and writing assignments that often felt improvised and unplanned. As a result, I was interviewing for this position for over two months and one week. I felt that the more the steps piled on, the less my time and effort were considered and respected. Between these steps, there were a few periods of being put on hold to accommodate everyone’s schedule. The longest wait time was a week, as I had to meet an interviewer who was unavailable at the time. Both of these points of consideration are completely understandable. With that said, two months and a week for interviews, writing assignments and a “meet and greet” made me feel like the process was being dragged on and was unclear for both the division and myself. Towards the end, I felt the company began a hiring process without properly planning around internal scheduling and understanding of what was needed. The verbiage used through the process was also confusing, clouding the transparency of the process. At different points, I was told "This is the final interview" and "This is the final step” - neither of which were true. After the supposed final step, I was told to continue the process with someone who I learned was not directly part of the division I applied for. I was told "This is a meet and greet and not an interview," only to find out after the supposed “meet and greet” that it WAS an interview, and there was a revision in the role requirements with a new desired direction. I was told that I was the last candidate to move forward to the meet and greet, only to be told there were one or two more people who were being interviewed after reaching out for next steps. In summary, I enjoyed chatting with everyone and personally think they are all lovely. That part made it more disappointing that the communication was very scrambled, and at the end of it all I felt like I was strung along for two months in a process that felt like an improvised effort seeped in the company’s indecisiveness and confusion of what the role's responsibilities actually were.