Before pandemic, I was contacted by a recruiter for a position in a growing security startup for a role in technical pre sales. It start with a call with the r

Before pandemic, I was contacted by a recruiter for a position in a growing security startup for a role in technical pre sales. It start with a call with the recruiter, then a call with the VP that sent me an exercise to make in a short time (4 days). I had a full time job, so I worked hard during the weekend and in the night to finish the task and I was not able to finish everything (just last step was missing). Then I presented everything to VP and he gave me more time to finish and last step and schedule another meeting to discuss everything. After this time I was contacted by recruiter, that told me that I was in the very short list of two candidates. He then arrange an interview with the VP of HR and the VP of sales. After those two interview they completely disappeared and ghosting me. I had other job opportunities, then I tried several times to ping them and they never replied back. After 5 emails without reply, I told them that I was going to accept another job offer and the recruiter replied that this was the right decision, because the company made other choices. I lost so many hours on this interview process that I would like to send them an invoice :)