In my experience Indeed seems to push heavily on employees to recruit and use them as a referral. I'm a member of a local job group and an Indeed employee posted about using them as a referral but this person did not follow up so I ended up waiting several days to the point where I just ended up putting the resume in myself. I get the phone screen email to schedule an interview through some booking site. Well my original time gets pushed back and I don't find this out until several days after the change occurred. I looked to the booking site to see if I can get in sooner. I get the call and the person doing the screening isn't even in Austin, she is based in Connecticut but that's a different story. She says that she is going to speak to the hiring manager for my area to get an in-person interview but then waits a day to say that it isn't going to happen at all. If you didn't want to move forward just tell me.

I applied online after seeing the opening on LinkedIn and was shortly after contacted for a screen by an internal recruiter. I passed this screen and within a week or so was invited to a first interview, which was a 30-minute presentation followed by some questions with a manager in both Client Success, and the partnered Account Management team. All seemed to go well and I was told I would hear back from my recruiter. I heard nothing for a month, except the couple of times I reached out to my recruiter, who advised that they had heard nothing from the hiring managers, until over a month had lapsed. Then I received a generic rejection email with no feedback, which does not feel fair after my time and efforts.