Definitely. At a very large company, I was involved in hiring something like programmers for a particular niche department. Over years we developed a good set

Definitely. At a very large company, I was involved in hiring something like programmers for a particular niche department. Over years we developed a good set of battle-tested questions, and had a clear process for evaluating candidates. But all of this feedback was just an input for management and HR. Regardless of how much we liked a candidate, only HR was trusted to communicate and negotiate with them. We later found out that candidates were routinely ghosted if the company had chosen not to hire them. We raised a stink about this, but ain't nobody got time to fight that fight. Anyway, the TLDR: especially with big organizations, never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence.