I wasn't going to write this out of fear of being blacklisted. But I really do feel like my interview experience was handled unfairly and unprofessionally. Recruiter reached out to me and we had a conversation about starting the interview process. Started getting some bad signals here as the recruiter seemed to be reading my resume for the first time, and seemed to know nothing about the role that I had applied for. He also constantly made subtle jabs about the city that I lived in. Told me he was happy to move me forward and that the next round would be a conversation / deep dive into my experiences with the hiring manager. He mentioned that it would not be technical and that I should just be ready to talk about my career history. He made it seem like this was another intro round where the eng manager could better evaluate if I'd be a good fit for the team. Next round comes and i'm immediately hit with a coding question and no deep dives of my career, which is what I had prepped for. I had not done any leetcode studying due to being occupied at work and believing what the recruiter had told me. Emailed the recruiter about the situation and asked if I could re-interview. He said he'll see what he can do. It's been about a week and at this point i'm just assuming he's not owning up to his mistake and decided to ghost me. Terrible candidate experience especially because I actually wanted to work here and enjoyed my session with the eng manager.

Had a call with recruiter - questions about my experience and interest in liveramp. Call with hiring manager - questions about debugging a basic web-app, databases, python knowledge depth assessment. Did not move past this stage