I was contacted via email by a sourcing recruiter who said she'd like to schedule a phone interview. A day or so later the interview was scheduled by a recruiting coordinator. The day of the interview, the coordinator reached out to let me know that the original recruiter was no longer going to make the interview and provided the information of the person who was interviewing in her place. This recruiter started the call like I imagine he always does, pulling up my resume, not knowing the role he was considering me for until he consulted his system. I have 10 years of recruiting experience for a large corporation, and I'm open to opportunities that will offer me more exposure to new candidate profiles and career growth. I explained that at my current company I am not responsible for actively sourcing passive candidates, meaning I do not regularly build Boolean searches for individuals - we have sourcers for that - but that this was an area I'd like to gain a little more experience with. After being completely transparent about this, he continued to probe on my sourcing skills. He then asked me "why Amazon?" which as a recruiter, I find that to be a very lame question. Why Amazon? Well, for starters, it's Amazon. But I'll go ahead and list the plethora of reasons why I think it would be a great move for me. So, between the sourcing and my answer to his Why Amazon question, I didn't feel that we were jibing with one another. The other thing was that our interview was confirmed as 45 minutes. He spoke for probably 20 of those minutes, not really seeming interested in what I could bring to the conversation, which was frustrating considering it was an interview. At the 30 minute mark, he let me know that he was finished, and I was unclear about when the actual interview was set to end. Was he done now? When I asked if we had 45 minutes, he said that I could bring my questions as this was time set aside...it was just weird and didn't flow...almost like he hoped it would end early. I asked five or six questions about the role, metrics, etc, which he responded to but seemed closed off. I could feel that he wasn't interested in moving forward, despite wrapping the call by saying "someone from the team will be in touch with next steps." "Next steps" was code for a generic email from the coordinator letting me know they were not moving forward. As a recruiter, I could feel the bad vibe through the phone because I recognized some of myself in his process, which is prompting me to change it as he came across as very impersonal despite being "customer obsessed."