Most likely talked to a terribly disgruntled recruiter. She literally spent 45 minutes on the phone to make me withdraw my application while it was way above her current team's qualifications according to LinkedIn. The call basically was about why with all the impeccable qualifications that she had to admit, I shouldn't pursue the process without even a phone screen. She explained how the climate was so horrible in Dublin, how much I should hate it, how groceries were as expensive as in London, how real estate had become as expensive as in London, how this role will be all after hours while it was not, why I should not travel, why my kids shouldn't go to school over there, how their taxes were so high ...funny when I paused her to share that our tax rates were actually higher at home she quickly she mumbled "well...." and turned to another reason not to consider AWS in Dublin as though she had a list of reasons prepared to bump qualified candidates...and her negative rants went on for ~45 minutes. I left the call rattled and literally sick to my stomach while wondering if one despised their employer or the hiring manager so much why would she still stay with them and convey the grudge to external candidates? Extremely bizarre conversation. On the positive side, I learned about 51 reasons not to work for AWS in Dublin first hand from their own "hiring" staff.