The recruiter reached out, played it off as a casual conversation via phone (because I expressed that I wasn't entirely sold on leaving my current company). It turned out to be a pretty black/white phone interview.. Sure, I guess. I agreed to an in-person interview, which was scheduled just fine. I arrived, was escorted by the same recruiter that I spoke with over the phone. During the course of my time at headquarters, I met with 7 people in the department (what I believe was the full team of who I would be working with if I were to get the job). It was quite a marathon, and each individual was quite different from the other. What I think that the team and recruiter did not realize, was that I was interviewing them in return. I would think that the recruiter would notify the team (since it was actually HIS team) that I was a passive candidate; someone that might be worth trying to impress in return. Maybe he did tell them this, but I wouldn't know because it most definitely didn't feel this way. All but one or two of the panel members were very cold in character, and I wasn't sold. The recruiter himself was repeating his same anecdotes and statistics that he relayed to me in our first phone call a few days prior; this made me feel as though he didn't value me as a candidate enough to remember what he said to me just a few days before.
After surviving this marathon of chilly interviews, I ended up emailing the recruiter the next day to let him know that I was resigning from the application process, telling him that I don't think it was a good fit. He never responded. I thought that this was highly unprofessional.
