First, there was a recruiter call. Then, a hiring manager interview. After that a take home assignment. While I was working on the assignment, the recruiter informed me that they'd hired people for the role and would be ending the interviews. They never told me a deadline for the assignment or why I was discarded (even after asking about it), and I wasted a lot of time working on it. It was a waste of time, and lack of transparency. Is it that they think persons as stones?