Bad recruitment process

I would just like to share the process that old mutual makes on go through to get a job in the pandemic, they so an interview let you know there are a certain amount positions available and the interview has been successful and then they send you forms and send you to do fingerprints and then they do not respond for almost a week where one has to constantly follow up and eventually they tell you it's unsuccessful when you question it they let you know there was a fewer positions available as been told and you did not make it to the top of the list, I would like to know as a financial institution do you think it's fine to let people run around to do fingerprints, printing things and scanning it back, literally wasting money to get a job in a pandemic, giving false hope to either get no response or take forever to respond to queries. For future reference on your recruiting team if the person is not fit for the job, tell them immediately after the interview do not let them waste their time, money and get their hopes in a pandemic. That is extremely selfish from a financial institution that should know better and unfair if the person passed the interview and was qualified for the position.