An industry peer referred and Exec Recruiting Consultant reached out to me about the role. Official process (over 1 month): 1 call with Exec Recruiter 8 - 1:1 interviews (Manager; 2 HR Peers; 4 Business Leaders (C-Suite); CEO) in that order. Between Manager call and other interviews CCAT and personality assessments were required to continue forward (passed those) Final step: While waiting for CEO call reference checks were requested and carried out. To me, this in addition to the manager WhatsApp'ing me on her vacation to expedite the process, it was assumed that this step meant an offer was forthcoming provided nothing bad with the references came up, which I know wasn't the case. Instead, she checked my 4 references, I had a 30 minute call with the CEO to which he was almost 10 minutes late and proceeded to talk about himself and his replacing of almost all VP+ leaders since taking over and that was the call. Waiting 5 days to hear back which I knew wasn't a good sign. CPO called me, which I'll give credit was the right thing to do, and told me they loved my background and my experience was exceptional but they went a different direction. No feedback, no reasoning for checking my references, and wasting their time. Nothing. Had I received an offer, it was likely I was going to decline. The people were nice (with the exception of the CEO's ego) but the talent strategy being forced down by the Vista playbook isn't one that seemed understood internally, how to execute, or that the Head of TA would have had any control over. It came across as a just execute-the-plan type of role which isn't attractive to most higher level TA leaders. I wish the team all the best and whoever takes the role, but it wasn't for me and the process needs work.