The interview process at Airtable was among the most unprofessional experiences I’ve ever had. I had two interviews — a recruiter screen and a call with a Senior Manager of Developer Support Engineering that oversees Eastern Standard Time. The recruiter screen was awkward from the start. When I answered the phone, I was immediately put on hold and informed by an automated voice that the conversation was being recorded using AI. The recruiter then proceeded to read questions directly from a script — no conversation, no engagement, just a checklist of keywords to fill. Somehow, I advanced to the hiring manager interview. It’s never a good sign when you, the candidate, are on time and prepared, while the interviewer arrives three minutes late, fumbling with AirPods and insisting that the audio issue is on your end — despite you being hardwired in and having already tested the meeting link (as their own invite instructed). After wasting time resolving their own setup issues, the interviewer seemed completely uninterested in my background, my enthusiasm for the product, or the real-world Airtable solution I’d built. When I tried to share it, he literally waved his hand to stop me and said we could “get to that at the end.” We never did. The conversation ended abruptly with, “Well, thank you for applying,” followed by a suggestion that I could “maybe follow up next week if I wanted.” The audacity of that response was baffling — especially considering I was a referral. If this is how they treat referred candidates, I can’t imagine how they treat cold applicants. I will never apply here again.