I had a short call with a recruiter who then passed me along to the hiring manager. The hiring manager asked me pretty much all the questions you shouldn’t be asking a candidate such as race, age, salary all sorts of inappropriate questions. My call with the hiring manager lasted over 1 hour and 45 minutes. An hour and 45 minutes of her asking inappropriate questions, gossiping about her coworkers, and telling me about all the other candidates I am up against and how much they asked for and what experience they have and what their names were. I have never had such a horrible experience, I stayed on the call because it was a referral and I didn’t want to make my friend look bad but wow. Never even got a follow up or rejection, the least you could do after wasting almost 2 hours of my life.

It was an initial call with a recruiter. I was not prepared for the interview, so probably that’s why I didn’t pass. The thing that I liked about the process was the recruiter follwed up pretty quickly personally.