Genuinely curious as to where my own awful interview experience stacks up — I work in media, and after an HR phone screening, multiple edit tests, and SIX in-person interviews (with multiple people each time) where I had to leave my own office for over two hours to get there and back, the company called and asked me to come into their office a SEVENTH time, promising it would be the last.
I think at that point, even they knew how ridiculous it was getting. And my boss at the job I was trying to leave thought there was something seriously wrong with my health, given the seven “doctor's appointments” I had to leave the office for (pre-pandemic) in the span of two months.
The real kicker is that they *did* end up offering me the job in the end … for $20K less than asking. Leveraged it for a raise in my current position and honestly, it felt amazing to give the other company a hard “no” after what they put me through.
EDIT: This was not for a high-level position btw — it was for an editor job that was literally offering to pay me $70K