[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by shermanator

Not sure where to put this, but I figured this may be the best place to share my story.

So, I'm not actively looking for a role, but am always keeping an eye out. A month ago, a recruiter from a company reached out to me about a role. The recruiter works for the company, and not for a recruitment firm. I review the role and am interested. Communication with this recruiter is somewhat difficult as I cannot leave a voicemail with them. We go through a first interview phase 2 weeks in, and I submit a skill assessment based on a sample project a few days later. Standard stuff.

At this point, communication from the recruiter drops off entirely, which implies to me that I did not get the role. I forget about the role. 2 weeks later they send out a canned email saying they want to set up an interview. They ask for my availability during a few day stretch. I provide it, and no acknowledgement. Days later, I ask for an update, they send out a meeting invite outside of my availability. I ask them to move the interview into my window of availability, and no acknowledgement. No mention of waiting on other parties or anything. By this point, since I have to book time off of my actual job to make this interview, I can no longer get the time off. Frustrated, I let the recruiter know I am no longer interested in the role because of the lack of communication.

The experience I had was bad enough that I wrote a review on Glassdoor about the experience. Well, the recruiter just called me to say that because the review on Glassdoor (which is supposed to be anonymous, but I guess given the details in the review the CEO knew the person responsible), they were getting fired from the company.

So, now I'm sitting here and part of me thinks the recruiter deserves what they got and the other part of me thinks I am a piece of ####.

Jesus that sounds a lot like our Talent Acquisition (stupid term) process.