Recruiter reached out to me and scheduled a meeting. Everything went fine during the screening round. They set me up for a meeting with the hiring manager. 2 days before the meeting I received an email saying that they already extended an offer to someone else and they accepted it. Why would you schedule a meeting at first place if you already are in the process of sending someone an offer. I wasted my weekend preparing for the interview.

I had 8 rounds of interviews ( 1-1) with different people in each round and all of the interviews were through Zoom video calls. The first round was screening, second round with a client Support Engineer with whom I will be closely working with, third round with manager and fourth with a person from marketing team. Fifth was an interview with a person from sales team, The other 3 rounds where with Vice President and 2 directors. I received very positive feed back after each round and they have also done my back ground check by contacting my ex-colleagues. When I was waiting for the final offer letter they sent me an email stating that they have cancelled this requisition. It took around 2 months to schedule these interviews and a lot of time and effort from my side to prepare for them. This was very depressing especially during the time of COVID and lockdown. Please value a candidate’s time and efforts before scheduling an interview.