I was approached by Miro for the role of Sr. Tech Recruiter by one of their recruiters. They use Calendly to schedule an acquaintance call (I think through Greenhouse) which is a good modern approach. The interview itself however, wasn't a very good experience. For starters, the recruiter was talking a lot, it is good practice to ask more in depth questions and let the applicant explain themself more. When I asked the recruiter questions about what she likes about working at Miro and what challenges they are facing from a TA and organizational perspective to achieve their goals (and what these goals are to her perspective), she didn't get any further than "hyper growth". Upon asking why the company is looking to double in size in 1 year time and what the rationale is to do so (hint: just adding bodies doesn't equal growth), it was mainly that there are more and more customers, from a Tech hiring perspective, this doesn't necessarily make immediate sense. Truth be told, she seemed to be working at Miro for only 2 months or so but even basic things, she didn't know. Another thing that surprised me a bit, Miro's vision from what I could see on their website, has all to do with enabling distributed teams. I live ~ 1 hour and 15 minutes single travel away from Amsterdam, where they have an office (which the recruiter didn't know about where in Amsterdam it was) so I asked how flexible they are to working from home part of the time (like 2 days from home or such). Pretty much no, everybody needs to be bums in the seat to achieve "hyper growth". I did tell her that I was flexible in regards to the amount of WFH days. Apart from her talking a lot and saying "I will put this in my notes" about 15 times when I gave answers to her standard questions, now comes the part that I think they should definitely improve on if they want to achieve "hyper growth". The recruiter told me she would check some things for me (such as working from home a couple of days a week, salary etc.) and that she would give me feedback on that. To my surprise, 4 days later, I got a standard rejection email in the category "thank you for your time, we had a competitive candidate pool, we're not moving forward" I do get when you send out a standard rejection email when rejecting applicants before you spoke to them personally. I get that with a lot of applicants, it is better to at least let people know where they are instead of not knowing what happened to the application. However, if you hunt someone, talk to them, the least you can do is 1 or 2 lines of reason why you're not moving forward. If Miro would like to achieve "hyper growth", I strongly advice them to up their game in this field. It is quite unprofessional. In all fairness, it might have been my salary, my question about WFH or anything else, at least, tell me. I hope for them that they are going to brush up their practices because if they don't especially in Tech, people will start to talk to each other and this could jeopardize their "hyper growth".