It was insane. They strung me along for 3 months. They told me that they had decided not to hire the role I had applied for but they loved me so much that they wanted to create a role for me. It was only after I had interviewed / had informal chats 7 times they said that I wasn’t a cultural fit. The last item was a big piece of work involving assessment analysis and design recommendations. To do this I used anonymised data and when I refused to share the original data them to protect the privacy of my current employer they got really shirty. Despite referring to themselves as an Edtech and repeatedly confirming this, in my rejection feedback they said that they were a very paper-based operation and they thought I was to tech reliant. On top of all of this, although I had applied for a job that paid £50k + and was a mid level manager role, in the last interview they said they would only be able to offer me an “associate” level role which pays at a 30-35k pay range. I genuinely felt afterward that they were just trying to mine information for a team that was out of its depth. I don’t know if the hiring practices I experienced were just a bad hiring manager or this is acceptable behaviour across the company. More broadly, their company value questions are badly thought through - they ask you to rank of four qualities in order of important, in my first interview feedback they said I was marked down for not ranking them in the right order according to multiverse. It’s basically an arbitrary guessing game.