One phone screening followed by a discussion with the hiring manager. The recruiter, could not be more abysmally unqualified for her job. During the first round of interviews, she was impossible to reach, leaving me on radio silence for two weeks. I waited for a week after our screening to follow up, and didn't get a response until over a week later. After the interview with the hiring manager, I didn't hear back from her on the next steps and assumed I didn't get the role. I never heard from her again, but received an automated notification that I did not get the role weeks later.
Fast forward two months later, this recruiter reaches out, saying there's another position on the team open if I'm interested. I said I'd be happy to look into it, and she says she'll talk to the hiring manager about scheduling an interview. This is the last time I hear from her. Mind you, this is after she reached back out to me about interviewing for a role. I follow up a week after our call to ask if I'm still being considered. No surprise, I never hear back from her. I assume the team's hiring demands changed, and move on.
A week later, I received a case assignment from GEICO and an invitation for a technical interview from a different recruiter. The case assignment was sent to my email, but addressed to a completely different candidate. I reach out to the new recruiter to confirm if it was intended for me or if it was sent by accident. I also follow up with my original recruiter, to see if I am still being considered given the email, but unsurprisingly received total radio silence. The new recruiter said my original recruiter will be in touch with me soon regarding next steps. She never reaches out or responds to my email.
This recruiter bait and switched me over the course of the entire hiring process and couldn't be bothered to respond to a simple email, aplogizing for her lapse and explaining that hiring demands changed. She was the living embodiment of America's collective hellscape that is corporate recruiting today.
After the first experience I should have known the fuster cluck of a company, that can't even get their recruitment down right, is far from anything I would want to touch in my career. Unsurprisingly, GEICO has a 22% approval rating from employees, and now I can understand why.