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Pavel Gurkov

For the company, that shall go unnamed, various interviews have been rescheduled 8 times. 1 was my fault and I rescheduled 5 minutes after scheduling.

It came to the point when I would wait near the building for the recruiter to come by for an on-site, only to find out she thought she scheduled for a different date and is sleeping.

Then I waited for 6 months for a reply.
Then I told it to a friend, and she worked there, so she pulled strings.

They decided to do the interview again.

For a different position though. And different career level.

Questions asked were based on how many skill endorsements I have on LinkedIn.

They ignored me when I told them it’s not really relevant to my experience and they’re gonna be disappointed.

Well... In 2 weeks I was tired of waiting the feedback and told this to my friend. She pulled the strings as we were standing next to each other, over IM, to say 1 minute later, that I got rejected.

That’s it. That’s feedback. No apologies. No nothing. The recruiter tried to reach out to me once more.

I rejected.

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Pavel Gurkov

Not exactly tech horror, just your general everyday normal cringe interviewing process. :)