I was reached out to by two recruiters which already felt disconnected. The first one I shared I wasn't really interested. After the second one reached out a few weeks later, I figured why not explore this opportunity.
I first talked to the recruiter. Not a lot was asked except confirming my current job title, my salary requirements, and work location.
I moved on to speak to the hiring manager.
I wasn't really asked questions so it was hard to gauge his interest. We barely got past any high level of duties.
Apparently, I did well enough because I moved onto another phone interview with another person on the team. Again, barely any in-depth questions were asked about my experience and then I was mostly asked about what I like to do personally which frankly is not really appropriate at this stage of the process. This creates a huge level of bias.
I decided to not move forward after this last interview since I tried to dig deeper on their work place culture and what they're doing around diversity efforts - which I wasn't really given a credible answer.
Before letting them know my decision, I received an automated decline message that they won't be moving forward.
This was my final red flag and glad I wasn't going to move forward. If you've talked to a candidate personally THREE times, I would expect a more personal email around the decline to move forward.
Final Thoughts:
The hiring team (or maybe the whole company) really needs training on how to effectively interview and learn how to ask appropriate questions.
The recruiter needs to learn how to create a good rapport with candidates as he was also incredibly pushy. After requesting my availability, he didn't give even me 24 hours to respond without him sending a rather pushy follow-up.