Initially applied via recruiter, who was lovely and asked a lot of questions, and gave some great coaching. However... that was where the good part of the whole process ended. I was told the interview would be done in 2 parts - the first a “peer review” which was conducted by someone in the same role, an informal chat to see if I was a good culture fit, and then a second which would be with hiring manager and cover experience and knowledge and go in to more detail. I had the first part, which was fine, we had a good conversation and got on well. After it ended I waited 15 mins for the hiring manager to join call, but they never did. Ended up speaking to HR (not the recruiter) who explained they were running late and couldn’t make it, so would rearrange. A bit annoying after I’d prepped but these things happen. Several days passed with no response, despite a chase. Ended up getting a call from recruiter to say they weren’t taking me to next stage, and the feedback was I wasn’t concise enough. Excuse me? How is that fair, or proper feedback, when I did my bit and was all prepped to be concise when it came to second part covering experience given that the initial chat was meant to be a friendly conversation. Ive over decade of experience so I certainly know what I am doing and I feel it is unfair, rude and unprofessional to dismiss me when they don’t even really know me or my experience as they literally could not be bothered to do the interview properly. Probably one of the worst interviews I’ve ever had! Either recruiter didn’t coach me well enough (but I think they did) or TikTok are too rushed when doing interviews as they know they’ll have a lot of applicants. Either way, it says a lot about a company and how it treats its staff if they are like this at interview stage so feels like a good thing to me, even though I was massively disappointed at the time.