I underwent a three month, ten stage (yes ten stage!) interview process with Progress. I was told by the team that there were no internal candidates and I was also told after stage seven that I was now the only candidate remaining in the process. I was therefore shocked when I was told the role had gone to an internal candidate! I have several issues with the process, namely: 1) No role should need ten stages. It is a huge investment for both the organisation and the candidate. I for example had to take four half days as vacation to attend calls/face to face interviews. All this number of stages shows is a severe inability to make decisions at several levels of the organisation. 2) I seem to have been deliberately misled. I was told there were no internal candidates with the skills necessary and that I was the only external candidate remaining by stage seven. How then could the role go to an internal candidate? If there was ever a process that should be studied as how not to go about acquiring a new hire then this is it. I was misled, have lost two days vacation and many more hours wasted in both the prep for and the actual interviews themselves. A huge waste and given how I have been treated a bullet dodged!