There were three interviews. One with HR, one with the hiring manager, and then a panel interview. The first two were friendly and seemed to go very well. Unfortunately, the panel interview was amateur hour. The questions looked like they came from the sales brochure for the software product (Sailpoint). They didn't appear to have any experience, which I suppose is why they needed to hire an experienced engineer. Also, they seemed to have different agendas internally. The job description was written very narrowly for a product expert, but the hiring manager mentioned that he was disappointed with the breadth of experience in the applications. Most of them were very "narrow" and only new the tool, not the process or applications that would integrate with it. When I got to the panel interview, it was back to a very narrow scope just about the tool. Things proceeded rapidly from one interview to the next, and then all communication stopped. I wrote to follow up about next steps and never received a reply. A week later, I got an email saying the position had been put on hold. In other words, this was a ghost job. They wanted to collect information and didn't care that it was a waste of time for me and the other two finalists. Seriously, who goes through this much work only to change their mind about the role later? Whatever the answer, it speaks poorly of Seacoast Bank.