3 Stage interview process, started out well. Good standard screening call and HR rep was very polite and informed me of the process. Second call was with the hiring manager, somewhat competency based but a more in-depth conversation about experience which again went well- I really liked that this felt like a conversation, and not an interview. There was a back and forth which was great. A week or so later, was advised to complete a technical task and this will need to be presented at the final interview onsite. Task was fairly straightforward but I put in a lot of effort considering the expectation that the final interview would be mainly presenting this and then a few more competency based questions on experience. Unfortunately the final interview was not as I was told. They asked me to present my task, after which, it was what felt like just a pure technical interview with 3 individuals, that I had not prepped for and ultimately didn’t do great at. No experience based competency questions that I was told there would be. Company itself seems great and the interviewers were class, but I’m a little disappointed/annoyed at the process for two reasons: 1- I don’t quite understand the point of the technical task? It was barely discussed and all the intricacies or design decisions were not discussed so it felt like a waste of my time doing it. There are use cases in the doc I was told to consider, which I did, but this was not even acknowledged. If the interview was just to be a technical interview, then set those expectations? Why bother with the task? If anything, it’s really set my own mind to avoid these kind of interviews that require tasks to save everyones time 2- No feedback at all. I appreciate it’s ‘only’ a 3 stage process, but almost 3 weeks long + having done a technical task and making it to the final round, to just receive a generic rejection email is a bit tasteless. I did follow up with a request for a little more information but I just received an automated email that the HR partner is on leave for 2+ weeks, I don’t understand why someone else wouldn’t pick it up. All a bit odd.