RejectedHR Screen

Recruiter Rescheduled a Month, Rejected After One BQ Call

OpenAISoftware Engineer · HR Screen · Aug 2026

The experience was pretty bad. The recruiter kept rescheduling. I applied in early July and was supposed to get a phone screen about a week later, but she had stuff come up plus vacation, so it didn't actually happen until early August. Then during the call she didn't turn her camera on, and the questions were all behavioral-type stuff — things like how do you manage people, what's a technically…

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