r/recruitinghell

I had a virtual interview scheduled today at 2pm. I put my little shirt and blazer on and am sitting in the meeting room at 1:57pm. I wait until 2:07, then message the recruiter asking if I have the correct meeting link.

3 minutes later, the hiring manager hops on the call and I see she’s actively on the phone with someone else. She muted herself and holds up 2 fingers asking me to wait 2 minutes. My cameras on so I just keep a neutral face. After 2 minutes I did leave the call and email the recruiter again. “She has joined, but it looks like she is still wrapping up the previous interview. Please let me know if we'd like to schedule or if I can hop back on before 4pm today. Thank you!”

The recruiter calls me and asks what happened and why I left. When I told her I decided to hang up and offer to reschedule after being told to wait past 2 minutes, the recruiter says “uh, I think she meant wait on the call”

I was flabbergasted. I told her yes, I did send you an email just offering to reschedule. She asked me to hop back in the teams room so I did. The manager looks PISSED before she sees me on the call, then says I’m so sorry, I haven’t been feeling well etc and fell behind on this call. I said no worries that’s not a problem.
She asked me twice why I left the call after she said☝️hang on for one minute then ✌️two minutes. I said yes I saw that, but I did message the recruiter offering to reschedule. (I didn’t mention anything about me already waiting 10 minutes past the time)

The manager asks a third time why I left the call, and says “were you confused? I’m just trying to understand why you left after I asked you to wait” and I said i wasn’t confused, I thought you needed to reschedule. And she says 🙃 no I did not need to reschedule

The interview consists of he asking me to tell her about myself, and then she asked if I had any questions. Recruiter texted me this 30 minutes later.
I can’t believe that all just happened

Edit: The recruiter sent me a copy-pasted message recommending that I send the manager a thoughtful thank you note. get outta here

For everyone asking, I left the call because i felt it disrespectful of my time to be 10 minutes late and then not even join ready. I am not desperate for a job right now thank God. I am currently employed

Has anyone come across this job assessment? This is how it starts off; I'm told it's to gauge my reaction to certain scenarios... the job has nothing to do with these scenarios. It later goes on to ask questions about my personality.

I know jobs that do assessments are always questionable and are just looking for people who will do what they say... this however takes it to a whole other level that my neurodivergent brain cannot comprehend. Literally, WHY?

I should add that I don't have the privilege of turning down any jobs; otherwise I wouldn't be considering an $11 an hour pay cut.

Be aware of this scam on Linkedin. I have never not would apply to jobs like these. A good rule of thumb if a company ahs thousands of job openings that appear every single day it’s a scam. Alinger and Mercor spam posting jobs that aren’t even available. Worst part is you can’t hide these job postings and reports do nothing to remove them from Linkedin.

From the store manager

Edit: For some extra context this was sent out by each store manager to all of its employees in district 1 of the ohio Cincinnati/Dayton division, potentially other districts as well but i can only verify my own. Im not going to give my specific store number for obvious reasons but you can find each store on google with that information. We are unionized by UFCW (already bad btw) and to my knowledge they allowed this recent change. Kroger has no accrual for sick days like some have mentioned. Those who think this is rage bait, i dont think anyone has to fake a post to make a billion dollar company look bad, they do it to themselves.

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I spent like 20m on the section with the ice cream pics and finally gave up when part 2 of 3 popped up with the shape puzzles. What does this crap even mean? Do they want you to be the ice cream stacked higher or the one that is more organized and cleanly stacked? Do they want you to be the rule breaker that swims when told not to and challenges norms or is that a trap question to get you to say you won't conform to them or will do illegal things? First question asked if you prefer being nice or honest. They could rationalize either of those as being good/bad. Nice=dishonest and could put company at risk. Honest =not nice and might hurt others ie "do I look fat in these jeans".

So I recently applied for a SWE role at a US startup. I had an intro call followed by a technical interview, and I got an offer on May 16, 2026.

An onboarding call happened on Monday (May 18), the CTO walked me through the entire product and what components I am going to own and work on.

Few hours after the call, he messaged me saying he would shortly send invites for my company email account and repositories. Nothing came that day.

Today, I woke up with an offer rescinded email, no mention of the reason. I’m totally devastated.

Just wanted to share this and know whether you have had a similar experience before.