I applied for a job as a campaign manager and after a week received an email from the hiring manager to have a phone interview. So I had the phone interview of 20-25mins in which I was asked general questions about myself, education, work experience , future plans and then about LinkedIn. After that, I went on holidays so once I came back I got the email again to have another phone interview from someone in the US office. So I gave that interview which was an hour long and more detailed but mostly work related questions and my education. After that interview, I was sent an online test of 2 hours. I did that test and then I had a phone interview with the recruiter regarding salary etc. Please note, all these steps I was never given any feedback at any stage. After the test I was contacted to come in for a face to face to interview with the dept head and then I was send two case studies and asked to prepare two separate presentations which I'll have to present on the day. Hence, the onsite interview was of half an hour and then an hour long presentation which was taken by 3 people. One was actually present in the office and two were from Dublin and US office on webinar. After that interview, within 24hours I received a call from recruiter to have a phone interview with the senior manager in US. Hence, I gave that interview. In all these times I was never given any feedback and reaching so far I assumed I am doing good and will most likely get an offer but to my utter disappointment after 2 days of phone interview I have been told that I have a bad news and they cannot go further with the process. The reason was that they need a more experienced person for this job. I thoroughly enjoyed the whole process and it has been very lengthy process for me but at the last time you are mentioning to someone you need a more senior person was kind of unfair. Did they not see my CV and my experience? I am a bit disappointed as I worked very hard for it and presented myself really well and this was the comment I got from the recruiter. I wish I could do better than that. But I enjoyed the whole process and learned alot.

The hiring manager was friendly & informative. Feedback and follow-up were quick. More context & information for what they were looking for in the final presentation would have been useful. The case study provided was very one dimensional