I went through several months of interviews with 30+ hours of "candidate exercise" work that was, in essence, unpaid labor. They were not completely transparent about most of the process, and I gave up other opportunities to be strung along.

Multiple phone interviews and an assignment, there was very little communication between interviews and oftentimes I had to reach out a few weeks later to see if there were any next steps. I was initially told they wanted to make a hire within a month... almost two months later and I was still interviewing. The worst part was after all the interviews and assignment I simply got a copy and paste "no" email from the recruiting team - nothing from the hiring manager. Felt very disrespectful after all the time I had spent talking to the team.