I appreciate a good vetting process, I do. But even with insurance experience, it almost takes an act of congress to get hired at Liberty Mutual. So I applied to a job that I felt my skills closely matched. Luckily, I got a phone interview! The process is automated - you go on a site and choose which interview date and time works for you. So I chose a date. On my selected interview date, 5 minutes before the call, I dialed in the 800 number as instructed. I waited... and waited... and 30 minutes later the recruiter was a no-show. I emailed them and also shot a text to someone I know there to check out what was going on. I thought the recruiter was sick or something, idk. Anyway my friend found out that they double booked me. The next day I got an email from the recruiter and we coordinated another date and time. So my “second” interview comes. Maybe she hadn’t had her coffee that morning, but I received a super underwhelming welcome, and that was the tone of the entire call. Underwhelming. No rapport. Not anything. I know how it feels to talk to someone I have no interest in speaking to, but I’m not HR in this scenario. Honestly, when I speak to recruiters, they are happy to speak with me and tell me about the company, as they are one of the first impressions one gets. But this experience was unlike any I’d ever had, so disappointing to FINALLY get an interview and then have the recruiter be so bland, as if they couldn’t be bothered, and had better things to do. The tone of the call let me know that the company is not somewhere I belong.