A hiring manager reached out to me on LinkedIn, stating I fit the profile they were looking for for a role. After a brief conversation, I applied.

I was then sent an availability checker using their internal scheduling tool, GABI. This is where the negative impact of the process began.

It took four days and over ten attempts to schedule an interview. Initially, they provided options one to two days into the future. However, the system allowed me to pick my own dates, so I did. Each time I picked a date and time, it would get cancelled. By the seventh attempt, I gave up on my own schedule and decided to only select from the preconfigured dates and times that suited them. These still got cancelled.

Naturally, I became very frustrated. I reached out to the company to check if there was an issue with GABI or something else I should be aware of, but I received no reply. Eventually, an interview was scheduled only two days from the original booking date.

The interview itself was okay. I felt the interviewer was disconnected and didn't show interest in actually interviewing me, but the questions were mostly around what they were looking for in the job specification.

Then, five days later, I received the survey that you usually get after finishing an interview. This was the only indication that I did not get the job.

Overall, this was one of the most frustrating interviewing processes I have ever experienced.

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