Extremely Careless - The recruiter emailed with high words of praise, expressing their desire to recruit "senior" iOS developers and stating they were keen on speaking to me. Following this, I emailed with my availability and then, in fact, had to chase them post the sugary email asking me to give a date/time for the actual interview. This should have been my first red flag.

Even then, we somehow managed to schedule the actual round, which went "extremely well" in the recruiter's language. She ended the call stating that in 2 days' time, I would receive a home test - a coding assignment for me to work on and submit.

Now comes the second red flag ---- 2 days turned to 5 days and so on. So, I again decided to "chase." The recruiter once again came back via email and told me that she had sent me a test for "Android Developer"!! Lo and behold, they do not even check the job applications and actual email trail. With a subject line "Senior iOS Developer," she is sending me an Android test! And that too with a generic email template message!

I should have stopped at this, but again, I wrote back to her politely. I told her to check the actual communication and interview and to check the email trail on which she had sent the generic response. I asked her to send the "correct" test, that is, to send the "iOS Test" to the person she is addressing as Senior iOS Developer.

My final RED FLAG blaring in my face was now. This time, she did not even respond. I got an email from again a generic "revolut" email alias stating, "Thank you for your interest in Revolut. After reviewing your profile, we have decided not to move ahead." At least here, acknowledge the interview and then make an effort to write a genuine email of rejection if the candidate is actually rejected post-interview, before sending a pretend message which is sent on resume submission!

Heights of carelessness and manipulative responses. At least they could have been genuine, accepted their mistakes of sending random emails, and wasted people's time on interview calls, which later they pretend did not happen at all since they send out generic, random, haphazard emails with any random test and any random rejection.

This unfortunately portrays a small, unconcerned organizational mindset of the recruiters, who should be attentive, accepting of their mistakes, and working professionally.

AVOID and save your time!

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