The most frustrating, time wasting thing I have ever done. I am a highly experienced and successful game industry executive and engineer with 30 years in the industry in various capacities.. I have led Three startups to ship a total of 5 game products successfully and on time. One of them was the fastest growing game on Facebook. I am also a successful college professor havign taught game development for 5 years, 3 of those full time at Worceser Polytechnic Institute. One of the few nice things about academia is that they give you a lot of lead time if a position is ending. So, back in January I sent in my resume on a dev position they had open. The manager I interviewed with and I got along famously, but I was really much too senior for what he needed. He sent me back to HR with a positive "lets find a place for this guy" report . My initial recruiter was responsive and professional, and told me he'd look internally but I should let him know if I saw anything that clicked on the website. He set me up in an interview with someone in their tool and tech group that went mediocre. We had trouble getting it scheduled and when it finally was the interviewer seemed to me to not be overly interested in interviewing. After that came back, I noticed that they were looking for someone in their developer support group to do tech evangelism type stuff, which I had done previously very successfully at Total Entertainment Network and Sun Microsystems, so I pointed him at that and I got sent by him to the guy who was recruiting for studio and marketing. I had trouble making contact with him but after repeated calls and emails, with a final one copied to the original recruiter, he got back to me and apologized for being slammed running up to GDC. I told him it was no problem, thanked him for connecting, and told him Id leave him alone until after GDC. He in turn promised to contact me the Monday after GDC. The Wed after GDC when I still hadn't heard anything I started pestering him and leving voice mails. I finally got an answer from him that Friday. We briefly talked about my background and that I could fit either in studio or marketing, but agreed to look at the marketing side. Then things went opaque again. I started prodding a few times a week and finally got back that again, they considered me too senior for the positions that they had open. I said "great, then hand me off to someone who does exec level" and received a neutral response. It then went into a period of opacity where I would hear nothing for weeks unless I pestered them and then got pleasantly neutral responses. Finally, about a month ago, after I had given up on them, he calls me and says "We just opened a Director position I've been waiting for. You are the only one on deck for it. We're setting up the VP level interviews now." It goes 2 weeks and I hear nothing. I finally ask "whats he status here" and I get a the answer "Oh they redefined the position and you wouldn't be happy with it." (Which sounds an awful lot like "its not you, its me" in a breakup"). Meanwhile I had been approached by another major technical institute about a faculty position. When that got past campus visit interview level (typically the last stage before an offer) I finally wrote them and said "the school says they will be in touch in 2 weeks, I may be able to stall them 2 weeks past that, but that's it. Here are the 3 positions you currently have open that I could excel at." One of them was that Director of Studio Technology position, the listing of which practically looks like it was written for me. They respond with "oh, they rejected you for that because they want someone with 7 years shipping games." I kinda exploded because there is 25 years shipping games on my resume including leading the development of 4 as CTO and doing coding on games such as Duke Nukem3D and GEX. I wrote my original recruiter and pretty much said straight out, "This guy either doesn't know how to represent me, or is lying to me." He took offense. We agreed to end the process. They wasted 4 months of my time. I now have about 3 weeks to find something or have my income interrupted. All in all it feels like I just got out of a manipulative and abusive relationship. And thats the whole sordid story.