Long interview process of 4 months with 6 interviewers with different functions or roles. They gave overview of the structure and the expected support needed. Frankly it is not easy to clear all 6 interviewers as each of them have own set of expectations of what this role needs to do. As the interview progress, I would think that I stand a high chance since I have been meeting with so many folks but the ultimate reply to me - they have decided on someone with sales experience. This is not a sales role and if one has sales experience is a plus. This can be decided upfront at earlier stage if they feel that I do not have a key factor of sales experience then we do not need to go through such long interview cycle. Normally when one can progress through so many rounds, we can be almost confident that we can close this and therefore I have declined other offers that came through as I wanted to work for them. This really upsets me as to how this was managed.