Was a phone screen, 2 interviews, and a take home design test. They didn't have the budget worked out for the role they had open, was told an offer was getting worked out, was ghosted and reached back out to months later about a new role.

I had a 30 minute phone screen with a design lead and then was asked to do a "Think Challenge" to design an app for an invisible service hotel. I spent a ton of time on it, documenting my process through photos and creating a comprehensive presentation to walk through it from start to finish and delivered a polished clickable prototype. I presented to four people of various levels and we had a great discussion afterwards about the app I created and worked through some different scenarios together. I felt like I got positive feedback from the group and got along well with everyone. I ended up not getting the job and felt that their feedback was unhelpful. I'm really not sure what more they expected me to do for a fake project and I used the research I had at hand online to form my assumptions. It didn't sit with me well that they ask people to do 40+ hours of work upfront and I'll never accept an interview request like that again.