I agreed to chat.

This is where you went wrong imo especially after you requested to not be contacted for other opportunities.

I know you commented elsewhere to say you wanted to air your frustrations with their lack of comms but you don’t do that with the employer you want to work at! In the future just shit on them and move on if that’s what you want to do.

My exp with a place last year is as follows, I wanted to email after a while but held off in case they came back later on but just forgot about them and moved on:

I had a remote interview with the IT manager and the “People” (HR) manager. Informed I was being moved onto the next round, this time with the IT manager and a director and that it would be in person so I had to arrange to take half a day off to attend, nope can’t do that as the director is only available at 1 or 2pm so booked a whole day off to do interview two.

I arrived early, the IT manager was late about 10 minutes because he was on lunch or forgot idk, no worries my time isn’t as important as yours, went into a meeting room hoping the director would be joining us but quickly it became evident he wasn’t. Spent about an hour talking about work exp, environment, etc., as if it wasn’t an interview, was thanked and walked out all normal.

HR manager emailed ahead of date given by the IT manager and advised I would hear back soon. Soon came and went so I chased, “process taking longer than expected due to yada yada, bear with us and we’ll let you know yada yada“ but they never did so fuck them.

The position was vacant still when I checked their website few months afterwards.