[bsvalley]

back in the days, I was interviewing over the phone with the hiring manager of a large startup in SF. Basically doing live coding on a shared note pad. The guy started chatting with his colleagues and completely forgot about me. 10 minutes in the exercise I had a bunch of clarifying questions to ask. I kept yelling and calling him over the phone, he did not hear me and kept talking with people around.

15 minutes into the interview I hung up. 15 minutes later he tried to call me back on my phone (apparently he took him 30 minutes total to remember I was interviewing). Got an email from the recruiter mentioning a "connection problem during the interview". Then the day after I got another email from that recruiter saying "I wasn't a great fit for the role:.

I think startups really win the #1 spot when it comes to horrible candidate experiences.