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Are you sure this is somewhere you want to work? This seems crazy
I’m *trying* to separate this experience with this HORRIBLE recruiter vs my experience in the interviews, with the hiring manager & expectations of the role.
I started by thinking you should reach out to the hiring manager. But think you need to do one follow up with the recruiter and request a calm follow up to the last call. Who knows what’s going on in the recruiter’s life. It’s unprofessional but the recruiter may just need some grace.
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On a call today with the recruiter, he interrupted, yelled and hung up on me. 🙃
What would you all do in this situation?
I don’t want to come in as a “problem child” but feel really disrespected and think it needs to be addressed.
Is it an internal recruiter or an external recruiter?
Yeah but I’ve never seen or heard of one this terrible
Agree with AGC1, definitely a red flag
On the other hand, you will never talk to the recruiter again after you start. I’d talk to the hiring manager about it before doing anything drastic
I’ve dealt with a lot of rudeness from recruiters, mostly shortness, when I asked questions they felt put off, no follow-ups, but never anything rising to this level. The yelling and hanging up is not something I’ve experienced and definitely not normal.
It’s tough to separate the bad experience with the recruiter from the rest of the process.
Outside the rude behavior some red flags: it went from remote to hybrid and the offer came in well short of communicated expectations. That tells me they are possibly getting folx in the door with the remote life and undervaluing what you bring to the table. That also tells me that negotiations for raises will be difficult down the line.
I’m fully remote and all my tech needs were provided, monitors, laptop, headphones, speakers, plus we get a sizable stipend to buy anything else ($1500) to setup our home offices. I have it good, but a lot of fully remote companies are moving this way. If they aren’t providing this it’s another red flag.
Overall I’d say even if you take out the rudeness of the recruiter, because they are undercutting other areas and failing to communicate basic requirements I wouldn’t go forward with this opportunity. Plenty of other companies out there that are doing recruitment the right way.
All of this is a huge red flag and this is not normal. If you haven’t given notice at biglaw I would rescind your acceptance or at least punch thru to your supervisor again and talk to them directly and see if you can get things squared away. If it’s bad now it’s only going to be worse when you are working there.
Is there any update to what happened?