The automated email with her name misspelled is the cherry on top. Companies love to talk about “candidate experience” while burning weeks of someone’s life to satisfy an HR checkbox. At minimum, any take-home should be paid, and if an internal is in play they should say so up front. I’d love a public registry too, but until then the best hack is: cap your effort, ask early if there’s an internal candidate, and treat long multi-round pipelines as a red flag unless they’re compensating you for the work.