Two virtual rounds. Then an on-site: a presentation, followed by five interviews back to back. He took the day off work to attend in person.
Until the on-site ended, the company answered his emails quickly. After it, nothing. He followed up that morning. Twenty minutes later came the reply: they had chosen not to move forward.
He had already decided he did not want the job, so he sent feedback anyway. The speed was the part he could not get past — eight conversations and a day of leave, then a decision inside twenty minutes.