The recruiter reached out to me over email within 3-4 weeks of applying.
They gave me a questionnaire to fill, which had questions asking about my skills in routing and switching.
Next: 1st Red Flag: they started salary negotiation before they even started the interview process.
Then I interviewed with 2 of the engineers their at playstation. It was a skype interview.
One of them was really patient and trying to understand what I know, the other interviewer did not have patience, did not try to understand what I had to say.
Even for the clarifying question, he did not help me understand his requirements better and I answered based on whatever understanding I had of the question that he asked.
After this, I tried to follow up on the feedback for 2 months straight at an interval of 2 weeks, but the recruiter did not bother to respond.
Then after 2 months and only after a passive aggressive email, I get to know that the position is on hold and that they have NOT HEARD feedback for 2 months.
It is one thing if a candidate did not perform well, you can simply tell them that you are not selected or at least communicate the state of the application than keeping the candidate in limbo.
The only reason I followed up for 2 months because I was interested in the profile.