When the recruiter asked his age
A candidate prepared for and completed a Program Director phone interview before the recruiter asked his age and said he was too young.
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Four days of silence after a four-hour task
A cold approach on LinkedIn, a four-hour task for one company and a two-hour task for another, the final stages of both — and then one of them stopped replying, and the days started being counted.
Still open, still unanswered
Kim Foster gave two hour-long presentations for a lecturer role after setting aside her book research for ten days. The promised “quick” decision had not reached her by 6 August—not even as a form …
Forty minutes on religion
A Manila job interview moved away from qualifications and into questions about one candidate's Muslim faith. He says the exchange lasted forty minutes.
A full meal, then a surprise AI interview
A co-founder ate through a candidate’s technical presentation. Another carefully worded invitation turned out to be an undisclosed AI interview.
Fourteen minutes with the CV-reading AI
An AI read Michael Szollosy’s CV, then conducted a 14-minute interview with the camera on. It was not his last AI interview.