I was contacted directly by LinkedIn for the interview. A phone screen was set up where I spoke with two people who barely spoke English.

The only non-technical question they asked me was "What is your background?" after I said hello, and there wasn't a single follow-up question beyond my concise response. After listening to each of them provide a 30-second background of their own, both of which were completely incomprehensible, they moved immediately to Collabedit.

With minor prompting, I was able to solve both questions they posed with optimal answers. I was very confident that amidst their lack of ability to effectively communicate, I had still performed extremely well. I followed up after the interview with a thank-you email to the recruiter.

After two weeks of hearing nothing, I sent another follow-up to the recruiter. Days after this, I received a non-professional email from a new recruiter stating that my previous recruiter was no longer with the company and that I did not perform to their expectations. In his exact words: "I regret to inform you that your interview didn’t go as well as we had hoped it would. Do understand that these interviews are quite challenging..."

I am quite self-critical, and had I fumbled on the technical questions even a little bit, I would shrug this off, but I did not. I asked the new recruiter if they could provide me with even a rough notion of the feedback so that I could grow as a developer, understand where I fell short, and work on those areas to improve. Well, needless to say, I never got another response from him, and to this day have been completely ignored.

I am only thankful for this experience so that I know to avoid this company in the future. I'll take a hint from the only professional I interacted with (the first recruiter), waste no more time with this company, and like him, high-tail it out of there and never look back.

What is your background?