The initial part of the process was a live-coding interview outsourced to Karat. After completing and passing it, I was informed that they were stopping ongoing recruitments for the time being. Though, they reached out to me after 5 months or so, asking if I was still interested. I was indeed, so I proceeded. There were another 3 technical interviews (algorithms, data structures, and system design) and another 2 non-technical interviews (values and management).

The technical interviews were okay, nothing too crazy. I was doing pretty well on the algorithmic one but had a bit of a hard time on the data structures. System design was, in my opinion, rather easy, but while providing feedback, they told me I was asking too many questions and that I needed a guide (well, for me, it's gathering business requirements).

Anyways, after providing me feedback, they congratulated me and told me I was allowed to take the non-technical interviews. Before the non-technical interviews, the recruiter called me from an unknown number from a different country than I was applying in (shouldn't have really taken such an unknown call) and dictated the possible questions I could get on the non-technical interviews (I wasted a solid 20 minutes during my workday on something that could have been an email).

Then I didn't get any responses for them for more than a month. I decided to contact them again, and it took a week or so to clarify that they rejected my application as I didn't perform well enough on the interviews.

To sum it up, I spent a lot of time on the interviews. I haven't met their expectations (I'm okay with that), but in the end, they haven't expressed much attention (in fact, I felt ghosted).

In the end, I was provided with high-level feedback.

How would I behave if the requirements in the project would change?