Sharing my recent experience with interview process of an Indian IT company. Because Candidate experience matters. My profile was shortlisted by Bootlabs for a AI Engineer role and an interview was scheduled. I showed up for the interview, but it was cancelled because the interview panel was unavailable. I was told by the HR Manager that the interview would be rescheduled the following week due to panel availability. I waited for a week and followed up yesterday. Instead of a rescheduled interview, I received a generic rejection email saying they would not be moving forward with my application. I have absolutely no issue with being rejected. Companies have every right to decide whom they want to hire. What I find unprofessional is cancelling a scheduled interview because of an internal issue, asking the candidate to wait for a rescheduled interview, and then rejecting the candidate without even conducting the interview or explaining what changed. This opportunity was important to me because I wanted to experience an actual AI Engineer interview, understand what I need to improve, and learn from the process , even if the final outcome was a rejection. Candidates also invest their time, preparation and effort in these processes. That deserves the same level of professionalism from the hiring side. Sharing this experience so other candidates are aware of how my hiring process with Bootlabs was handled. Rejection is completely okay. Lack of transparency and communication is not.