A recruiter reached out to me and the initial conversation I had with them was great. They expressed a lot of confidence in my resume and told me that my experience matched exactly what they were looking for. They even said the hiring manager had already seen my resume and was interested. Naturally, this made me very confident moving into the next round. The second interview rolls around and it was probably one of the worst I’ve ever had at any company. It was a video interview with a team member, not even the hiring manager. In my opinion, a team member should not be making the call on whether or not I move forward. They answered the call several minutes late in what looked like a dark room and looked totally unimpressed from the get go, like they wanted to be anywhere else. This is not exactly confidence inspiring. Hardly greeted me, did not give me an outline of what to expect from the interview. Jumped right into questions that were what I like to call “trivia” focused. For example: “what event corresponds to this Windows event number?” Like hell I would know that off of the top of my head! Questions are supposed to be focused on behavioral and essential knowledge pertaining to the position, not something so minute that I’d most likely be using a reference for on the job. Might as well quizzed me on port numbers while they were at it. The recruiter told me beforehand that the interview would be focused on my comfortability with sensitive situations and my forensic analysis experience, which would have been extremely relevant to the position. This was hardly touched on at all. I feel like I got to convey maybe 5% of who I am professionally and personally. It seems like they set up an outline for the interview and the interviewer took it and did what they wanted. Also, they never typed or took any notes and seemed to be reading questions off of a screen. This was not an engaging conversation, like most interviews I’ve had. It was a quiz. And I felt like they made the decision not to move forward before I even got off the call. Overall, not impressed with Facebook. Put more oversight and training into who you’re having interview your candidates, and maybe don’t base a hiring decision on a rushed 30 minute conversation with someone who isn’t even a hiring manager.