If I were to describe this process in a nutshell it would as if I went on a date with someone, they then told me they weren’t interested in me and then followed back up two weeks later to see if I was still interested, then asked me to do them a favor and then they ghosted me for a month and then again told me they didn’t want to date me. What happened was: - July 2024 I applied for this role and after my first round interview with the hiring manager I sent a thank you and included a link to a Python based project I did to showcase my skills. The hiring manager said that it was great and while the next step was to do a technical assessment this more than suffices and I’d move to the next stage of the process. -I moved along in the process with two more rounds of interviews and then got a very generic rejection by the hiring manager in early August. -In the rejection email the hiring manager offered feedback, so I took him up on it. He then replied back with a very generic response about how he looks for strong communication and a robust portfolio. -Two weeks later the hiring manager emailed me again asking if I was still interested, I said yes and we scheduled a call. -On said call the hiring manager asked a very nonspecific question about handling new client data, he apologized for being awkward, said they were hiring again for this role, and then asked I could complete the technical assessment and said he would send it to me. -The hiring manager never sent it but I was able to find it in the email where he originally told me that my other project was more than sufficient. So I completed it and sent it over to him. -After not hearing back for over a week I reached out again asking for confirmation that he got my assessment. -Finally, a month after I sent the assessment I got another very generic rejection email from the hiring manager. Not sure why he reached out the second time, wasted my time asking me to do the assessment , and then couldn’t even have the decency to reply to my email to confirm he got it.