I got an email requesting a short screening call, which I accepted. 15 minutes after the scheduled time, I emailed the HR representative to ask why she never called. I'll just note that it's never acceptable for an applicant to be this later, and it should go both ways. She wrote back and was apologetic, so we still had the call, and she was friendly. Shortly afterward, I had a Zoom call with the hiring manager. I thought this would go well because my recent experience aligned really well with the position, and we work with some of the same colleagues. She really didn't seem that enthusiastic, though, and I wondered if it was more the HR representative who was interested in my resume. A couple of weeks later, she told me they had a ton of applicants and would get back to me in a month. I appreciated her transparency, but that made it crystal clear that I wasn't going to be hired, and I would have preferred a "no" right then. You don't wait that many weeks if you're interested in someone. A week or two later, I saw the same job reposted with much different and higher qualifications. That was the second enormous sign that I wasn't getting the job...so again, why not just be kind and tell me sooner? As promised, she emailed me to say they went with someone who had those higher qualifications. It was disappointing, first for the interviewer to be so late (which I could get over quickly...not a deal breaker), but then for someone at RTI, a company I have collaborated with recently, to be yet another cliche of an employer who strings candidates along and switches the job requirements mid-process.