The candidate was rejected after four rounds of interviews, and what stayed with them was not the rejection but how much personal information the process had demanded first. Employers, the post says, now ask for values, weaknesses, a life story and a set of aspirations before they will extend any commitment at all. By the end, the candidate had met seven people. None of it produced an offer.
The account is written as an observation rather than a complaint about one company. The employer is not named, and the candidate does not say which role or industry it was. What they isolate is the asymmetry: the process asks the applicant for intimacy — the life story, the weaknesses — while committing to nothing in return, and can still conclude that the answer is no.
Four rounds and seven interviewers are the only figures given. The rejection itself is reported flatly, as the expected ending rather than a surprise.