Absolutely disrespectful and a complete waste of time. These people think they are God's gift to Earth and are entitled to your time.

I am going to post exactly what happened to me so you can save yourself the hassle.

A recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn asking my availability for an initial call early in the week. I sent it over and didn't hear anything from her for a few days. I followed up the next week, and she told me she was OOO and connected me with a different recruiter.

This guy conducted my initial call, which went well. Now, one thing to note is I am more on the infra/Kubernetes side of things and don't have much experience with big data or ML. I specified this very clearly to the recruiter, and he said it wasn't a big deal since they wanted folks with that experience too.

He set up a call with the hiring manager. The call went very well, and I made it very clear to the HM that I don't have Databricks/Spark experience but am more on the cloud/big data side. He said it was not an issue at all and proceeded to tell me I would have a call with a solutions architect next.

A couple of days went by, and I heard nothing from the recruiter. I then emailed the HM asking what was going on, and he said he would push to get it scheduled. Then, this new recruiter reached out and asked my availability to schedule the call with the SA.

The call went very well. Again, I made it very clear to the SA that I am more Kubernetes/Infra-focused, and he said, "That's okay, we are looking for folks with that experience to balance out the team since we have quite a bit of data science-focused people."

The next step would have been to do a technical assessment, which the SA described over the call. The hiring manager also talked about it in the call I had with him.

The call with the SA was overall very positive, and I followed up with the hiring manager again (because the recruiter was clearly not good at following up or really doing his job). So then the HM got back to me saying he wanted more Databricks/data science experience since he was worried I couldn't "ramp up."

You might think I am joking, but this is legitimately what happened. Unbelievable waste of time. It's one thing if he had said that after the recruiter call or initial HM call. But after assuring me that it's okay and having me speak to the SA, who also assured me it's okay, then getting told this is pure disrespect and a complete waste of my time. I have a full-time job and had to make time for all these calls.

Candidates applying to this role, please be aware that these folks have no problem lying to you or wasting your time. Look at all the other stories here and on Blind of them ghosting, and make the decision for yourself if you want to go through the process with these people.

The call with HM was about my background and some technical questions.

The call with SA was also about my background and much more technical.