Audatic Software Engineer interview questions

1. Coding task for 90 minutes 2. Coding interview + a bit of system design 3. Take-home assignment for 4 hours to implement features for Dash+Plotly server 4. Technical interview, python + others 5. On-site interview and presentation, 2.5-3 hours 6. Three references Up to 4th interview everything was good, no question. A red flag was when after 4 stages they requested me to make a presentation and to provide 3 references, although we hadn't discussed compensation at all by that point. They assume that a candidate blindly spends many hours of effort to potentially get undefined compensation. Moreover, they initally didn't disclose it on request. As a final step they called my references, got "exceptional feedback", but rejected anyway. That's not a red flag, that's disrespect. What was the point of calling the references? Awful practice. I do not recommend if you respect your time, your effort, and your references.