I applied for a job and got an email from a recruiter who asked for my availability to setup a time to discuss the position. I sent my availability and the recruiter told me a week later that those times won’t work, and he suggested a time a week later (he should have just done that in the first place). A week later I had a 10 minute call with the recruiter and he seemed completely inattentive and made comments “this position sounds like it would be a career change”. I thought his commentary about my experience was somewhat rude as I was perfectly qualified for the position and my experience aligned with the role. The conversation ended with the recruiter stating that he would let me know the next day if the team was interesting in proceeding. Again, after about a week passed by and I heard nothing so I followed up only to receive a reply back 3 days later that they were not interested in me as a candidate. It was a bad experience, I felt like just a number and the never took my experience serious right from the start. I wasn’t given a fair or equal shot. I also took PTO to do the phone screening and to have to constantly follow-up after being told that a response would be forthcoming is not acceptable.