I had an initial 30 minute interview with a recruiter at Deel that went well. The recruiter was kind, asked relevant screening questions, and answered my questions. As a next step, I was provided a calendar link to select time to meet with the Hiring Manager for 30 minutes. I did quite a bit of preparation going into this call, reviewing the sales managers LinkedIn (his posts and his comments) as he was very active on there. Upon joining the call, I could immediately tell that he was not prepared. In fact, one of the first things he said to me was "I'm sorry I'm not very prepared, we had SKO last week" which immediately rubbed me the wrong way. As a manager who posts on LI about interviewees needing to treat interviews like they would a sales call and "closing them", he surely didn't take his own advice. I wouldn't go into a sales call and start it with "I'm not prepared". As an AE, you make the time to get prepared, and if you absolutely can't, then you ask to reschedule to ensure nobody is wasting their time. The first question he asked me was if I was interviewing anywhere else and where. I shared a couple with him and he immediately was telling me to go with one company over the other "if I were him". This was really strange. We hadn't discussed anything about Deel yet or my background and he seemed to already be pushing me away. This really threw me off. He went on to ask me to share my background/experience with him. He asked what my quota was (they have 1 million dollar quota minimum) and length of sales cycle. That's all he seemed to care about. He didn't ask any other questions or specifics (didn't ask about sales approach, challenges, any won deals or lost deals, etc.) As I was sharing my experience, he was stretching and twisting in his chair and appeared to be completely uninterested in anything I had to say and not really paying attention. The entire interview just felt unprofessional and off. I was left with a very bad taste in my mouth for the company and more specifically, this manager. Needless to say, I didn't get moved on to the next round but had that invitation been opened, I would have declined. I am sure the company and product are outstanding, but I knew I would not want to work under this leadership.