The recruiter for this position did a horrendous job. I'm a software developer, and this guy contacted me by telling me about an SRE position. I was actually looking for jobs and thought an interview at Apple was a good chance.

However, what he failed to tell me was that they are looking for people with SRE experience, which I clearly don't have.

Long story short, I had a technical phone screen, which I cleared easily. They got me onsite. This is where the fun starts.

The hiring manager directly asked me, "We are looking for a person with experience in SRE. Why are you even here? Who did your phone screen?"

I mean, really!

I really got annoyed. I finished my day-long interviews (which, in my opinion, went well). The manager gave me his email ID, as did one more interviewer (and I thought it was a good sign).

The recruiter (who, by the way, is very unresponsive and behaves as if he is the hiring manager) emailed me asking me to fill out a 2-3 page long questionnaire (which is a waste of time, given that they are going to reject me anyways). I hoped that a positive result would come.

One week later, I was browsing through jobs on LinkedIn and guess what? I saw the exact same job posting (posted a day ago).

This really pissed me off, and I sent an email to the recruiter, who then immediately sent a template email of rejection.

If they already had the result, don't they have the courtesy to inform me after wasting weeks of my time?

I wasted 3 weeks of my life on this useless job. I am never going to apply to Apple again for the way they treated me.

Linux, networking (sys admin), and troubleshooting.