I was first contacted by a recruiter for a phone screening that was about 15 minutes and she claimed that I would hear back soon to see if I would get another interview and if I had any questions to email her. She kept in touch with me throughout the process but in the middle of waiting for another interview the recruiter claimed that there was another candidate that was being highly considered and that it was implied I wouldn't get contacted again, this was over a month of keeping in contact with this recruiter. 2 weeks later another recruiter contacted me and set up a date an time to talk to the hiring manager. I had an interview with the hiring manager and then got contacted by another recruiter to set an in-person interview. I wasn't aware that I had to prepare a half hour presentation for the interviewing panel and that the interview would last at least 4 hours until the day before the interview.

Applied on the website, recruiter emailed me to set up a skype call with the hiring manager where we did a brief portfolio review. After skype call I was invited to go onsite for a 4 hour interview which would include three 1:1 interviews and a portfolio presentation in front of a panel. Unfortunately a day before the onsite, the recruiter called to inform me that they are cancelling my interview despite me doing all the preparations and creating a presentation deck, due to already extending an offer to another candidate who had another offer deadline. The whole process was under two weeks, so I'm left to wonder why they bothered to interview me in the first place, and why they didn't inquire earlier about offer deadlines from each candidate.