This interview process took 2 months and 9 conversations, along with countless hours of preparation. 1. A conversation with the recruiter (30 mins) 2. Interview with the hiring manager (30-40 mins) 3. Another call for feedback and explain next steps (30 min) 4. Business case - 1 hour + (hybrid, me being remote, them in office) with a panel of 4 people. A deck was provided a few days before, asking me to make adjustments and send 24 hours before the interview. There was 20 minutes in a 'consultancy' perspective justifying changes I made and giving the business outcome of these, before 20 minutes of facilitation, followed by questions. More than an hour. I was told 'this would be the final round or there may be another conversation to address any doubts'. 5. Another call for feedback (30 min) but they expressed some doubts to come to the offer to deliver a SECOND business case (a live workshop with a bigger audience). They gave me the topic but no materials other than some template slides. I confirmed with them that I was the only candidate that was at this point in the process. 6. Another call with the hiring manager to discuss questions and next steps (30 min) 7. Live facilitation of a workshop (1 hour 45 mins) that I created from scratch in their office in Barcelona with approx 10 audience members including the panel. There was a last minute change to the panel and someone stepped in who couldn't stay for the whole session. While in the office, I was given lunch and a tour, also my trip was compensated for by the company by my request. I was verbally offered the job, told "I want you on the team" told my start date and shown internal documents so I fully expected there to be written job offer. The following week I got a whatsapp message from the manager (who had verbally offered me the job) saying that because they have a 'high bar' approach to hiring, they wanted me to do a sponsor check (conversation with a VP). I was extremely surprised to receive this. 8. (Another call with the hiring manager (30 min) to discuss and he advised me that out of the entire group, 1 panellist (the one who stood in temporarily) said no. They have a 'golden rule' apparently that the panel needs to be 100% in agreement which is unrealistic in my opinion. He advised me what the next conversation would be around "Assertiveness - capacity to improve leaders. Strong grounded opinions in leadership. Cultural check mindset - aligned with foundation about leadership." 9. My final interview with a VP (40 min). She asked some of my feedback for the hiring process and some other questions around leadership. Some red flags were raised for me in the conversation and I felt we didn't align on our values. My takeaway from the call was this company cares more about business results than employee centricity. There is an expectation that high performers work 50-60 hours a week. A few other flags that popped up along the way, including people replying to emails out of hours. The skills they kept emphasising for this role were 'ability to push back' 'leading challenging stakeholders' and having 'difficult' conversations (none of these were in the job description). It left me wondering what type of leadership they have and what type of leadership they want. I was told I would get feedback the following day but they left me waiting over the weekend to find out on Monday that it was a no. The way they treated me in this process, stringing me along for two months, while they benefitted from my contributions, has left me extremely disillusioned. The mixed communication about the process and outcomes all the way through, it felt like they kept changing their mind about what type of person they want in the role.