Interviewing for this company required so much time I had to cancel further interviews while I was still in the loop. The recruiter gave me the job description, and then asked if I was still interested, which was a bit odd. I then met with the hiring manager. He didn't ask any technical questions, and mostly gave me the 30 minutes to ask him questions. Afterwards the recruiter asked again if I was still interested, and I told him I was. But it gave me the impression that most people they spoke to weren't, when he kept confirming. I then did the coding portion of the interview. The interviewer said coding wasn't required and I could just use the coding tool if needed, which was a bit disappointing. He then asked me a bunch of questions about how to upgrade and maintain Elasticsearch. But it didn't seem like he knew any of the answers to the questions, and instead was using the interview to get some free advice. None of the questions were ones that I could have possibly answered with some code. He left me plenty of time to ask him questions too, but after getting so much time to ask questions I was running out of them. He did tell me though that the hiring manager I spoke to was actually about to hire the manager for this position, and I would not be reporting to him. I was a bit shocked when he told me this, because I wouldn't have still been interested if I knew I wasn't going to meet my manager beforehand. It also seemed strange that he never told me during our call. After this they scheduled my "on-site" interview, and and asked me to prepare a web stack in Rails beforehand to be used during it. They said this would only take an hour, but I'm not a web developer or applying for that position, and I haven't created a web stack from scratch in many years. The interview was also scheduled across several days, and was going to take 2.5 hours one day, 1 hour another day, and another hour on a third day to wrap it up. One of the hours they scheduled was just an "independent work" hour where they were going to give me more coding homework to do. I was also going to be meeting with everyone I had already interviewed with again during this loop, so I was only going to meet two new employees during it. I had to cancel the interview because it was over six hours total across five days, plus a large take home portion that didn't have much to do with the position and I wasn't familiar with. I estimated it would have been 10-15 hours interviewing total. This was especially concerning to me, because it seemed like no one I had interviewed with so far was really qualified to ask me technical questions, and I started to wonder if anyone in the loop was. They said that they were interested in me because they had a lack of internal knowledge on Elasticsearch, but they're never going to be able to recruit people with this knowledge if they're quizzing us on how well we can write a web stack from scratch too. That person doesn't exist.