A recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn and I was really excited to interview at Braze. After this initial screen, it was 10 days before I heard any update. However, I was moved to the next round which was a phone call with the hiring manager. I was excited to be moving forward but she was located in New York and I am in California. The recruiters asked me my availability on a Friday afternoon and when I sent the recruiters my availability to talk (even though I specified PT) they scheduled it for ET, which turned out to be absurdly early in the morning on my end. When I clarified the time zones, there was no response as I assume they sent the confirmation then left the office. The call was scheduled for Monday morning so I bit the bullet and took it early. When I spoke to the hiring manager, on the phone she told me that she liked our conversation and wanted to move me forward to the next round, which would be a video conference with her and her manager. Very excited to move forward with Braze, I did end the interview process with other companies I had been speaking with. I sent my thank you emails to the hiring manager and recruiters I had been working with at Braze and did not hear anything back about scheduling the next round. When I hadn't heard back for a week, I sent a follow up message. The interviewers sent over a few times to schedule to talk with them (which is not a good sign for moving forward in my opinion). I responded by saying which times I had free of the times they gave, but they never responded. This happened a couple of times where I would send a follow up, they would send me times to talk, then ignore my email response. Finally, over a month after my interview, I received a generic reject email. All in all, being rejected from a job isn't the worst thing, but it is incredibly disrespectful to tell someone they are moving on to the next round, then give them the runaround for a month before sending a generic reject. The most disrespectful process I have experienced as a candidate on my end, and hoping not to have more like this.