For a recruitment firm, the lack of process and follow-through is outstanding. To start, I was contacted by someone at the company, I did not apply. I had a decent first intro call (about 30 minutes). A follow-up interview was scheduled with the person who is launching a new territory for the company in Texas with an office based in Austin. We spent a whole hour on the phone, thorough conversation with solid questions going both ways. After the interview, I was assigned 'homework'. I send back the 'homework within 24 hours and my email goes unacknowledged. I follow up via email 3 days later. My email still ignored. Three days after that, I email the person that originally reached out to me (because maybe something awful has happened to the person I last interviewed with), and that email ALSO goes unanswered. I decide to finally reach out by phone (no answer of course) and I leave a voicemail. Days later, I FINALLY get an email back with 'Thank You but we are not moving forward.' That is all. The issue is not that the decision was not to move forward, the issue is the LACK of professionalism and common courtesy to reciprocate the respect and timely communication to candidates who commit over 2-3 hours of their time between interviews and 'homework' that is a complete waste of time. Awful time to be caught slipping like this, especially as a recruitment firm.