a phone interview and face to face with the Chief Data Scientist and rest of the team. Offer was made and accepted.
Company could not honour an accepted offer due to lack of funding. The phone call was made last minute with no apologies given. Due to last minute nature of this, candidate has forfeited another job offer and was therefore left in limbo (risk of deportation as a visa national).
Few months later funding appears to be available again because above same recruiter was sending copy-and-pasted emails on LinkedIn for Python Developer role saying they received funding and I might be a good fit. Oh dear. I replied to the mail who made the call, no response!
I've worked in many companies and some start-ups but never had experienced something as chaotic as this. It won't get any worse than this as far as interviews go. If you are thinking of applying please be mindful of potential damage.