A recruiter first reached out with a few written questions on experience. These included queries such as:

• What is your account management experience?
• What is your mobile app install experience?
• What are you currently working on?

Following that, we had a quick phone call discussing basic background details. One thing to note is that the recruiter didn't offer me any opportunity to ask my own questions about the role, which is typically offered. It wasn't a huge deal, but it did rub me the wrong way a bit.

From there, they assigned a project to draw insights from a provided Excel data sheet and answer five questions about which campaign I would recommend investing more money in. I also had to show all Excel formulas used to arrive at my conclusions. They allowed 48 hours to finish.

After submitting the project, I didn't get a response for over a week. At that point, they wanted to schedule 1:1 interviews.

After I provided my availabilities for the 1:1 interviews, I again didn't hear back for over a week. I reached out again only to then learn that they had decided to hire someone internally instead.

To be honest, it was pretty frustrating to devote the time and energy into that project only for them to withdraw the final round interview they had offered. If someone is going to work hard on a project like that, they at least deserve the chance to still be considered throughout the process if they were already offered that interview. At the very least, an apology for the inconvenience would've been nice, but the recruiter was apparently too busy for that. I won't be applying again if that's the normal company culture here.

Describe your account management experience.

Tell me about your experience with app install campaigns.

Do you have vertical experience?

What is your current role?

What are your responsibilities?