After application, received what looked to be an automated email to put time on the recruiter's calendar. Once time is set, you are expected to make a call for the scheduled appointment.
I called, the recruiter seemed slightly caught off guard - there was no brief chatting at all, it went straight to "here are some questions I'd like to cover with you, let's begin".
Tell me about yourself, what did you do here, why did you leave. Literally, that was it for each job that I had. The interviewer seemed incredibly unenthusiastic and very disinterested. Wouldn't dive into any specifics of roles I had done that would potentially show transferable skills or even projects that could correlate with the role. After a very brief 10 minutes of basically her reading off of a script, we then dove into conversation regarding compensation. I asked about their range (basically every company has them, budgets are created for a reason). She gave me "we pay based on experience", I gave her previous compensation, then she literally says "so we're looking around the xx -xx range".... so you have a range haha, wow.
I've worked in this specific piece of HR for quite some time and this was hands down one of the worst phone screens I've been a part of. The first phone screen is when you make the biggest impression on the candidate interested in the company and this experience was a big failure in my opinion. Based on the other interview reviews, it sounds like I'm not alone in my experience and how I feel about everything. I decided to withdraw my application needless to say.
