I applied for the job online and received an email from a recruiter on Saturday night, asking me to book a time slot for a phone call.

The email appeared to be auto-generated, but I booked a time slot anyway. I also replied to that email to confirm the time I booked, but received no response.

On the designated time, the recruiter did call me. The chat was very short, about 15 minutes, mainly about when I could start, what kind of projects I was interested in, and of course, briefly asked about my recent project. I thought the chat went pretty well; the communication was friendly and nice.

One thing that surprised me was that for the very first question, the recruiter asked how often I play LoL. I answered honestly that I am a long-time Dota player and had only tried LoL the previous weekend, which I enjoyed.

After the phone call, I sent the recruiter a brief thank-you letter. There was no response.

Two days later, I received a standard auto-generated rejection letter, not from the recruiter but from the online system.

I can't say it was a good experience. The recruiter seemed to be in a rush and never answered emails. I was rejected without a technical phone screen, and there was no explanation for the rejection from the recruiter. To this date, I still don't know what went wrong.

Anyway, it's an unusual experience for me. For software engineer roles, I either get silently rejected or start with a technical phone screen. HR phone calls are normally just for data collection, but maybe I was wrong; perhaps they do screen people through HR phone calls first.

How often do you play LoL?