HR contacted me, the first interview with the hiring manager was set up fairly quickly and was conducted online. The interview was OK, there were no technical questions as those were supposed to come at the 2nd interview. However, I never heard back from them, despite discussing the next steps and my availability for a 2nd round. I understand that they chose to proceed with a different candidate for whatever reason, however, I would have appreciated a short email /call /text from the recruiter after a 1-hour interview that they decided to move on with someone else. To me, this would be a common courtesy.

Interviewers were nice but the whole process was messy and dragged out. The whole interview process took about ~4 months - 1 month for interviews and 3 months of them randomly contacting me monthly to let me know I was still a front runner (probably just trying to keep me on the back burner until they found someone cheaper since my salary expectations were too high for them). Would probably never consider interviewing with them again.