After a few initial emails with the recruiter, we scheduled a 30 minute intro call just to touch base on the process. Followed by the scheduling, I received an itinerary for our initial call.
The recruiter was about 10 minutes late to the initial call followed by an apologetic personal matters excuse. It really wouldn't of been a big deal but he then stated that the call was going to have to be cut short since he had a scheduled call coming up in 20 minutes. It started with the a few basic questions about work history and experience like most intro calls. Then, he said they were looking for someone fast so this was also going to have to be a tech pre-assessment call. I wasn't really prepared for that since it wasn't on the itinerary but I was ready to go even though we only had about 10 minutes left. About 4 questions, that didn't really relate to the job I would be getting, in he realized he had the wrong set of questions for me and with 3 minutes left found the right questions. In that 3 minutes, it went from "we are going to have to move on to the next question" half way through an answer to "wow, there's a lot of questions here, we are just going to have to stop here." He said he would make some notes which I thought would be, "hey, I was late, asked him the wrong questions, and didn't give him enough time to answer the right ones". Instead, he got back to me a few days later saying the hiring manager decided to move forward with someone else. I acted professional and understanding the whole time, it sounded like he was having a rough day.
Either way, I'm not sure if it was sabotage or what it was, but it didn't seem like the "Google Way" you always hear about. Hopefully, he doesn't teach all his interviewees like that...
