I applied for the job online, and got a email from a recruiter on Saturday night, asking me to book a time slot for a phone call. The email looked like auto-generated, but I booked a time slot anyway. I also replied to that email to confirm the time I booked. Got no response. On the designated time, the recruiter did call me, the chat was very short, about 15 minutes, mainly about when can I start, what kind of project am I interested in etc., and of course briefly asked about my recent project. I thought the chat went pretty well, it was friendly and nice communication. One thing that I was surprised about is that for the very first question he asked how often do I play LoL. I answered with honesty that I am a long time Dota player and only tried LoL last weekend and liked it. After the phone call I sent the recruiter a brief thank you letter. No response. Two days later I got a standard auto-generated rejection letter, not from the recruiter but from the online system. I can't say it's a good experience. The recruiter seemed to be in a rush and never answered emails, got rejected without a technical phone screen, no explanation about the rejection from the recruiter. To this date I still don't know what went wrong. Anyway, it's an unusual experience for me. For software engineer roles, I either get silently rejected or start with a technical phone screen, HR phone calls are normally just for data collection, but maybe I was wrong, they do screen people through HR phone calls first.