Dear Celonis , I was interviewed for the ecosystems solutions engineer role for India office for 2 + weeks in august , normally i am not the one to give extreme feedbacks on the hiring process as different companies have their own mechanisms to evaluate a candidate and i totally respect that , however  i am forced to share this feedback after what happened in my case - The process was not only disappointing but misleading and unfair at the least. Good things about celonis first : Product is great , however It is extremely saddening to know that a company which claims to optimize and discover process gaps , has huge process gaps in its hiring itself. I cleared all the rounds and was sent 2 emails confirming  the intention to hire  and then a salary discussion round and a mail confirming that final offer is now only pending approvals . ( Details attached in screenshots) . The HR however did point out that I had scored low in the revilion test and was asked to take a re-test which was also lower side but despite of this me & the hiring team had a final call on salary which was sent to me in mail as well  clearly stating a decision to make the offer has been taken   I was shocked however to know only the next day that final approvals did not come through and no offer can be made . My questions are : 1> If the revilion test which is the very first step in the hiring process was not  clear for me , why did celonis chose to go ahead take all other rounds and even made me a tentative offer? 2> what kind of hiring process do you follow where you first make a tentative offer clearly stating your decision to offer a position , also do a tentative salary discussion and then back out of everything at the last moment? 3> This Is the most unfair and misleading in my opinion : we also discussed both with the hiring manager & HR on "how soon can you join"  . What if based on your tentative offers in email , I would have gone ahead and resigned from my current organization ? would you have taken any responsibility then . 4> If you have not made your final call weather or not to hire a candidate why send misleading emails saying " we have decided to make you an offer " . ? I don't know  if this will make any difference to the hiring process but will be happy if it does .  Lest assured i will share the same feedback on other social media platforms as well so it helps the other candidates.

It started with a recruiter call, then hiring manager + engineer call, take home project using the Celonis software (2-step interview), and then the last was a final round with the hiring manager again.