Beam Organics interview questions

The recruiter approached me on LinkedIn. The process seemed simple enough: a few convos, take home, and a final chat with the cofounders. When I first met with the recruiter, she emphasized that they "had plenty of runway" and "were doing really well." A bit suspicious to emphasize unprompted. A brief Google search will show you that their last public raise, a Series A, was in 2021... The rest of the conversations went pretty well, the hiring manager had really positive feedback for my take home, even saying she wanted to reach out to product about my ideas (probably should have been a red flag). They did a pretty good job communicating with me, which set the stage for an uncomfortable 10+ days where I was waiting for feedback after the case study. At the end of it, I got a canned email about "moving forward with better fits," even though the recruiter reached out to me specifically for my background and my background was emphasized as a positive throughout the process. I can't tell if they were just fishing for ideas or under-resourced/disorganized, but it was definitely disappointing.