“Bossy” and “High heeled steel toe boots” These are the words that resonate with me still after my interview process with LA Metro Information Technology Systems. The hiring manager and interview panel members were all old Asian men. When I was asked about future career goals, I mentioned that I would like to be in a leadership role involving process improvement and program management. The hiring manager said “so you like being bossy.” What an unoriginal comment because of course women who want leadership roles are “bossy” but men who want leadership roles have “initiative”. Cue eye roll. One of the other interview panel members asked me if I owned a pair of “high heeled steel toe boots” to walk the construction sites. I was so caught off guard by the question that all I could say was no. The other interview panel members just laughed. One of the interview panel members was completely rude and disengaged while on video. He was late, sitting back in his chair, and staring down at his phone. He was so distracted by his phone that he didn’t realize it was his turn to ask questions off the list they were using. He had to ask the other interviewer which number they were on! The recruiter aeon group is absolute garbage. She is disorganized and erratic. Her email domain was disabled and she was unreachable for over a week. Seems like she might not have renewed her domain registration or failed to pay her internet bill. I was given an offer but negotiations shut down because the recruiter refused to negotiate the rate and immediately rejected my counter saying “I wish you the best of luck”. Then, about 2 weeks later, I get an email from the recruiter offering $2.50 more and also including insurance, acting like the previous conversation never happened. Overall, I dodged a bullet with a sexist team and a bumbling fool of a recruiter.