Interview started with a phone call with the recruiter, then a 1/2 hour interview with a senior member on the team, next, a four hour Zoom that started with an hour presentation/exercise that took 30+ hours to prepare. Fast forward a couple months, the hiring manager chose to bring in his former coworker from their previous employer that they both had recently left. Hence, I’d conclude he and Slack were just going through the formalities of interviewing other candidates when someone else was already preselected. Frustrating. I’d like my 35 hours back please. The rest of the team that I interviewed with and HR were all terrific, fun and pleasant. The reason given that I wasn’t chosen—they didn’t get a sense that I had a “strong point-of-view for the role.” I adamantly disagree and recall clearly communicating how I’d envision the role and how to solve challenges in both the Zoom interviews and the hour-long exercise. Again, when you’ve already pre-selected your buddy to fill the role, you have to come up with something!