I was first approached by talent acquisition within the company who were convinced that I would be perfect for the role. I wasn't actively looking for a role at the time but as I'm freelancing at the moment, I am open to more interesting opportunities, so I decided to proceed. The first interview was a video conference with three staff to assess my experience and personality and the second was to review the technical aspects of a project I worked on. There was also this online 'assessment' I had to complete which apparently determined what kind of personality I have. It seemed an inappropriate way to judge who a person is, with very general multiple choice questions, many for which there was no answer available that even applied to me at all and many of which were repeated multiple times but in different words. The first interview went well and I enjoyed talking to two of the three staff members that I met with, but the third was unfriendly and had no personality whatsoever. The other two had a friendly attitude and I felt we communicated well. The second interview was a stressful one, as I was grilled non-stop with questions for at least an hour. Like the first interview, it was a video conference and it was with two of the people from the first interview, one being that who was lacking in personality. I chose a project I was recently working on to showcase, described every aspect about it in as much detail as I could and answered all their questions as thoroughly as possible. For the second half of the interview, I was supposed to talk to the CTO, but the interview was unexpectedly cut short, as they claimed the CTO 'was not able to make it and would have to reschedule' (which turned out to be a lie). Minutes later, I got a call from talent acquisition saying they weren't going to proceed and something about 'not enough technical depth in my project' (whatever that means??). I realized at that point that while I was busting my gut to present this project to them, they were telling the CTO not to bother with the interview. I felt this was a highly unprofessional and thoughtless way to handle the situation. It's fair enough that they decided another candidate would be a better fit, I have no qualms with that; but to cut off my interview and then blatantly lie to me, followed by a very hasty and vague piece of feedback was extremely demoralizing and disappointing. Perhaps it's best I wasn't chosen for the position, as I wouldn't want to work for a company that treats people in such a careless and thoughtless way. I'm going to add some further insight and speculation here which may or may not be accurate as to the reasoning behind their actions. Firstly, I'm clearly older than the two technical (male) staff who interviewed me. I'm also female. I can't say if this had an impact on things, but it does make me wonder.