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Firstly I want to apologise for a recruitment process that did not give you the experience you deserve and we aspire to. I will take each of your points in order. In regards to the four interviews over four weeks - whilst this may feel like a long time and a substantial set of interviews, it is both a sign of our detailed process but also the fact that you did well during the process to move through the stages as you did. As for your second point of better communication and interview prep from the Internal Recruiter, I have spoken to them, and we agree that the communications were not sufficient and could have been more supportive. This was not to the standards we hold ourselves to. I do not believe that it was our intention to catch you out with any questions. As you will expect from interviewing wholly over video calls we have an additional focus on working with teams which otherwise you would meet in person. We recognize that interviewing online could be a challenge for some of our hiring teams, and are making sure we are more supportive of them too. I am sorry if this came across as it did, we would certainly never intentionally seek to catch anyone out. I will review our style of communication and questioning with the hiring team. Looking at the feedback I can see we did not give this to you in a timely fashion, nor did we manage your time expectations well. I would also agree that the feedback could have been more helpful, but I would not agree that it was a nasty opinion. Rather, it tried to explain why you had done well but also why the other candidate had been selected. But clearly it missed the mark of that intention. In regards to the point you make about the toxic team, this is not the case, we have a very strong team culture and great tenure in the team. But I can understand how a question set around fitting in will have given you that impression. Again, I will review this. I am sorry that we let you down during the interview process. Clearly, we can and should do better.. If you would like to discuss this or other feedback with me then I would be happy to discuss with you. Cheers Robert