I was contacted via LinkedIn by a recruiter in San Francisco. She mentioned a role and a certain "range" for the salary without clarifying further. I had 3 video calls and 2 in person meetings over the course of 5 exhausting months. Only after the first 3 interviews, the recruiter clarified the salary range was actually extremely wide, and I realized I could have landed on very different compensation than I expected. I regret not stopping the process afterwards because it became even more confusing and a total waste of my time. Before the last in person meeting, the VP responsible for the SF office called me to let me know they were "trying their best" to close the process soon and to thank me for my patience. After my last interview, the recruiter called me (she was very anxious to be done with the call, I could feel it) saying that "unfortunately" I wasn't a fit. Not a real explanation, not even an offer to put me on the phone with the same VP who a week earlier had called me to "thank me for my patience" to provide some feedback. I said to her that getting over this 5 month process in a 3 minute call was not appropriate and she had never shared anything other than some (vague) positive feedback throughout those 5 months. She rambled something about how she tends to always share more positive feedback, and when I said "thanks for the call" she did not even say goodbye, but barfed a sarcastic "yeah...". Completely unprofessional. The same day she reached out to a former colleague of mine for a role (maybe the same). I made sure he knew what a horrible experience I had and he told her he had heard some negative feedback about the interview process. Don't waste your time with them. There's a reason why they don't grow (and it's not because they care about people).