I send the CV and a few days afterwards I got a Linkedin contact from their recruiter. A few days afterwards he/she contacted again and said that one of the senior management team, wanted to contact me about another role. This role was to replace him/her for a time and at least 1 degree above the one that I had applied for. I told him/her that, considering my experience I would feel more comfortable with being interviewed for the role I had applied to. He/she insisted that I should get the call and that the manager felt confident that I would be a good candidate. I accepted and he/she agreed that he would send me the Job Description for the new role. I never got the JD. The senior manager then called me from a cafe next day (lots of noise going around) and started to shoot a series of questions. I answered the best I could, but shared that I felt the position was too high; managing my own peers (I was supposed to have applied to be one of them) and take some hard decisions about critical privacy elements in such a large company I didn't have any experience with; wouldn't be good management since it was a risky proposition for both. Challenging, to say the least. He/She didn't like it and the interview ended there. As I felt that I could have helped more, I wrote a 2 page plan of next weeks activities (considering he/she had told me that interviewing was on Friday, making a decision on Monday and if positive I would start on Tuesday and he/she would leave next Friday), going trough the different parts, divided by days/meetings with senior management, etc. I got a reply back Tuesday saying that I didn't get the job and that my application for the original job was not successful as well. My comment is that the overall process was not professionally conducted, I was interviewed for a higher position that the one I applied for, without ever receiving a JD and despite the fact I was clearly not at the level of such a high end position at such a big company and had expressed reservations. Furthermore, the decision to not even have my original interview was taken at what it seemed to be the spur of the moment, by a person clearly stressed for time and just trying to find someone to cover, with no proper process. Speaks loudly about improvements that are needed regarding upper management practices. For the position I've applied for, I was the perfect candidate and should at least have had the courtesy of an 1-1 interview. My experience as a candidate was terrible and so is my image of the company right now.