Where to even begin with this. Possibly the worst, longest and rudest interview process I've ever gone through. I applied online on a Sunday evening in January 2020, got a call the day after for a quick screening interview with someone from recruitment for 10 minutes, and he scheduled me an interview with someone higher up for later in the week. This person (with whom the next 5 -yes, five- interviews were conducted) missed our first call, and the internal recruitment consultant rescheduled for a day later. I then had the first interview with this person. That first interview only lasted 10 minutes, so I am led to believe it was his own screening interview. He then booked another interview for a week later, 1 hour long, where competency questions were asked along with a role play segment about how I would speak to a client. This is where things started becoming strange; he trashed my attempt of a role play interview and told me that it would be good if I was speaking 'to the average Joe down the street', as I was doing at my role at the time, but not if I was to speak to C-level executives. He asked me to repeat the role play interview, and apparently the second time was better. He then proceeded to trash my CV, telling me that my qualifications are red flags for him, but that he'd still like to proceed with the next interview anyway. I somehow got good feedback about this interview from that guy from recruitment, and we then booked a third interview with the person who had conducted the long interviews and his manager, for a week later. That was also about 1 hour long, similar questions were asked, but that same person again proceeded to trash my qualifications and my work history for a second time, and while his manager was on the call too. I needed the job though, and I knew I could do it, so I went along for the ride. I was invited to a fourth interview at the GlobalData offices in London. I purchased my own plane tickets (GlobalData do not refund the costs, and I've had them do that twice to me now) and went to see them. I had an initial 1.5 hour interview with that same guy in person, where similar questions were asked and he showed me their systems, allowed me to ask questions about the systems, then I spent an hour on the floor with the other employees and listened in on their conversations so I could understand what the job was about, and then I spent another hour with that same person on a fifth interview, about the job, what I thought about it, and even more personal questions. He proceeded to trash my CV for a third and final time, telling me how my education was a red flag, asking me why we were not having this conversation earlier in our careers, and I replied to him I'd interviewed with GlobalData for a different role a few years later, but was unsuccessful. I also told him I liked what they were doing and I knew I could do the job because what I was doing at the time was much harder to me, and I also asked for 2k more, because I know what I am worth and what I am able to do in terms of performance. I could prove it, I had stats on my phone, which he declined to see. We parted on good terms that day, but when I have to explain myself 5 times to you, things are not OK. If you've spent 4 hours in total talking to me and you then tell me you can't read me, you proceed to ask me all sorts of impertinent and inappropriate questions about my personal life and history, and I have to prove to your interviewers with facts that I do not have an elephant trunk on my face, I don't really want to work for your company. It's poor management, and really poor interviewing skills. At the end of the day, I flew down on my own dime to interview GlobalData for a second time, and they didn't pass, but they also clearly showed they didn't appreciate the amount of time and money candidates spend. I sent a follow-up email that afternoon, but wasn't really expecting a lot. Naturally, I didn't receive a reply, I also didn't receive a reply to my second email a few days later, and then about a week after the interview, I got a 1-minute call from recruitment telling me that they felt I didn't ask a lot of questions, that I wasn't too relevant, and that they went with someone else. So yeah, it took them 6 interviews in total to find out I wasn't too relevant (!). That, or they couldn't afford the extra 2k. Who knows? Covid-19 lockdowns hit about 3 weeks later, so I guess it was a blessing in disguise, as I would not have liked to be searching for a place around London in February/March 2020 anyway. But yeah, poor interviews, rude interviewers, terrible company policies.