The initial interview was good. The interviewer kept their camera off. I assume they didn't have a great environment to interview in. Followup from the interview was slow. I had to reach out to the recruiter about next steps. The executive recruiter eventually scheduled a call with me a week later. The recruiter didn't call when they said they would. I had to email to see if they were still going to call. They eventually called and seemed annoyed that I reached out. It turned out this call was only to discuss what the next steps would be and not a follow up interview. It seemed odd that it took a week to have this conversation when it could have been done earlier. Afterwards I provided some availability and they chose a date two weeks from this call to setup a virtual onsite interview. This interview was scheduled a month and 3 days after the first interview I had, which is quite a long time for a follow up. The virtual onsite was supposed to be over the course of two days. First day was two hours of interviews and four hrs the second day. I took PTO for the second day to ensure that I had the time and space available for these interviews. I regret doing this since it ended up being for naught (more below). When I joined the call for the first day of virtual onsites the recruiter didn't join the first 5 minutes of the call as scheduled. I thought maybe they were busy and the two people who were scheduled for the first interview would show up. They did not. About 7 minutes into the call I reached out to the recruiter who emailed me the interview schedule to see if I was on the right call. They joined and informed me the position had been filled a week prior, that I had not been notified by the executive recruiter who was on vacation and that I must have slipped through the cracks. This is a terrible experience for any of your candidates. I'm sort of glad that the position closed since it means I may have dodged a bullet here. I couldn't imagine the difficulty in staffing engineering teams and this happening to candidates. If I were dependent on the recruiting team I would be very interested in why this occurred and very motivated to address the problem immediately.