HealthStream Senior Developer Interview interview questions

My interview experience with this company is much like the experience below. The company was impressed with my resume. I filled out the 6 question survey in detail and was told how impressed they were with the survey. I had a phone interview in which I was told they were very pleased, however they didn't want to pay the original amount posted. The new amount was pretty close, so the interview process followed by the authentication programming assignment which really isn't a small assignment. I spent 2 or 3 days building an authentication framework from front to back and documenting it so that a junior level developer could pick it up quickly. After submission of the assignment, I was told the people holding the interviews were on spring break, then told they were no longer pursuing candidates for the previously posted position. The whole interview process took about 3 weeks where you are told you're amazing and then they supposedly just stop looking without telling you why. I understand if the position was filled by another candidate, however if they just supposedly stopped looking then I clearly wasted my time interviewing with the company and would recommend others to be cautious to interview with them, especially for a contract-to-hire position as the hire part probably won't be there in the end.