90-minute technical interview. Recorded in full by an AI tool. Interviewer explicitly said a coding exercise wasn't needed - my technical level was clear from the answers.
Then: 8 days of silence. A template rejection. Three requests for feedback. Two deflections and one non-reply.
The excuse for no feedback? The recruiter has "limited access to the AI interview assistant." The one that recorded every word of the session.
This is not an oversight. This is how they operate. The recruitment pipeline is designed to extract candidate time and give nothing back. Professional outreach at the start, complete indifference once the interview is done.
Don't mistake a polished LinkedIn message for a company that respects your time. They don't.
The technical questions were heavily skewed toward Java backend internals -HashMap implementation, heap vs stack exceptions, functional interfaces - rather than QA automation topics. Useful to know if you're preparing.
