Initial phone call on 3rd November, told they wanted to “move fast”. I then waited 2 weeks for a tech test that had been written in 2018, it was highly unclear and specified a need to display knowledge of a multitude of technologies that had not been previously mentioned (but no tests as that isn't needed in the job apparently). I immediately emailed and said I did not think I was suitable for the position as our expectations do not match. They asked what they could do as "they really wanted to make this work". It was agreed (after they initially suggested they pay me to do the full exercise) that I spend 1-3 hours on it and see how far I got. I took a while to return it due to personal reasons, of which they were understanding. I returned a GitHub hosted solution on 9th January that I specified was an MVP and would be happy to talk it through with anyone to explain my choices (as is typical). After hearing nothing, on 18th Jan I asked for an update and was told they were waiting for feedback on the exercise (despite multiple unique clones and views of the repo in the first 2 weeks after I returned the solution). On 27th January after hearing nothing, I asked if they were withdrawing from the process. I was once again told they were waiting for feedback. I responded that I was now looking for other jobs for financial reasons and may withdraw if something else came up quicker. On the 22nd of February, I asked for an update and was told they were no longer looking for a python developer.