I was initially approached by an overenthusiastic internal recruiter who really hyped up the company. They said they would call me soon to set up a technical phone screen. The recruiter then ghosted me after that initial call, so a couple of months later, I sent them an email checking in.

After several more weeks of radio silence, another recruiter emailed me to set up a phone screen. I asked the new recruiter if they could share any information about the teams or projects they were recruiting for and was ignored.

Eventually, I was invited to an onsite. For over half an hour, my interviewers ran around in confusion, trying to figure out who had the coding question I was supposed to work on. They ended up accusing me of missing an email they never sent me.

Everyone I met there had a distinct, "I don't want to be wasting my time on this" attitude. At one point, one of the interviewers got into a passive-aggressive, pedantic argument with me, insisting I accept something factually incorrect they were asserting.

After the interview, I was, of course, ghosted by all the recruiters involved, despite several follow-up emails. This was, no doubt, the worst interview process I've been through in terms of the sheer level of incompetence and lack of even the most marginal level of respect for candidates on the part of a company.

What was your biggest career failure?