Let me tell you about my experience with Geico.

The company's in-house recruiter suddenly tried to schedule a technical interview without calling, introducing herself, or finding out about my background. These were pretty much red flags.

So, I kept ignoring her without responding to her emails. After she insisted, I agreed to be interviewed by the hiring manager and the lead of the technical team. This was for a CICD Release Engineer position.

Before the interview, I checked the profiles of the hiring manager and team lead. I found that the hiring manager's work history looked very shady, and the team lead also had a shady work history. Then, I came to the conclusion that this was going to be a token interview.

At the time of the interview, the hiring manager did not show up, so he had to. I talked to the team lead. The technical interview, which was scheduled for one hour, lasted more than an hour. I found out the team lead did not know much about the position they were trying to hire for. He asked a lot of questions to clear things up, which he did not know completely before the interview. So, this one-hour interview turned out to be a crash course for him on this open position. He really enjoyed the interview.

When I asked him about the next steps, he was unable to answer. Simply, he did not know anything. He was just playing a game, following someone's instructions, who did not show up in front of the camera.

After the interview, I sent a thank-you email to him and the in-house recruiter, asking about the next steps. The recruiter did not respond to me. In a few days, I got an automatic message that said I was not chosen for this position.

Total bull. Geico's recruiter and IT team play a dirty game. They are just sorting out and kicking out US local candidates to gather statistics for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to show an excuse that they did not find a proper candidate in the US and want to bring "talent" (H1B slaves) from overseas.

Asked mostly about the tools, how to implement those tools in deployment, and asked for solutions to existing problems.