The in-person interview was a true "don't meet your heroes" experience. It was six half-hour interviews that became comically repetitive by the end (at least two of the interviews solely asked questions that could have been consolidated into the others). The interview was full of technical glitches, and the HR logistics was cut to 10 minutes with no time for questions (was told HR would reach out the following day to make up for it, yet never did). The experience was also full of this strange contradiction where I was repeatedly emphasized that I was not interviewing for a research position while simultaneously being aggressively prodded over my research interests and experience. Most importantly, the interviewer set was (what appeared to be) a homogeneous set of 10 white, cis women who spoke with micro-indications of privileged upbringings. I have never witnessed such lack of diversity within a company, let alone when given a 10 person sample. I left the interview far less enthused than when I arrived. The firm spent four and half weeks (including contacting references) before finally rejecting me. No one likes rejection, but I feel partially relieved that I do not have to decide whether I would accept an offer from them.