Initial call and then a programming take home task following shortly after. Fairly usual pipeline. Task is multi staged. There isn't really much more to say, it's as I have described.

1) chat with HR and meeting with the hiring manager 2) take home assessment 3) 4hr final interview with 2 chats, 1 take home review, and 1 live coding session

1. Recruiter 2. Coding test which is supposed to last 1.5-3h but really takes 4h 3. 1h technical interview 4. A ~2h interview I aced the test and technical interview, really liked the engineer that interviewed and the hiring manager that I interviewed for 1h. The product manager was indifferent, didn't seem to understand my role, didn't seem to like me and unilaterally decided to end the interview at half-time. I honestly think that she didn't give good feedback and they must be having some veto approach to decide the outcome. Also they seemed to be lacking confidence as they asked like 15 times "why do you want to work for Alphasights". They offered to give feedback and I took the chance as I want to improve but really their input was hideous and insincere which makes me think why they bother in the first place. 1. They mentioned that my technical submission had issues and I asked them why did they passed me and told me I got past this round. They said that they are evaluating with signals from all rounds but the recruiter never mentioned that and if she would have mentioned I wouldn't have wasted my time. 2. They said that I did not go into depth when answering leadership questions. I talked about these things for a long time and was open to follow-ups. If they wanted more depth why wouldn't they ask me to do so? 3. They think I didn't ask a lot of questions about Alphasights. I did. And I reached the point where they said "these things are confidential". What I really think is that they needed someone to be dying to join them, which sorry but wasn't the case with me. I found them interesting, I think I would do a great job with them and stay for the long-term but that's it. Overall, don't waste our time with lengthy processes and without properly communicating your intentions. If you want to say "overqualified" or "did not show sufficient interest in our company" say so, otherwise giving feedback about "issues with the coding test" is unethical and makes you look intelligible.