I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Mutual Mobile (Austin, TX) in Jan 2021
Interview
I was contacted on LinkedIn and had a 30-minute Zoom call with an in-house recruiter.
We talked about my experience and recent work for a few minutes while he looked at my resume for the first time. That lasted less than 10 minutes and seemed fairly normal. The odd part came next.
The topic of when the company would return to the office came up, and he launched into a rant that meandered from the mistakes of returning to the office too soon to Austin real estate to gentrification and counterurbanization. He talked, almost without stopping, for the rest of our 30-minute call. He didn't talk about the role or the company at all.
At some point he realized we were out of time and sort of came back to reality. He announced, sort of abruptly, that he had another meeting, and had to go. He asked me to email him my portfolio link, which is in bold at the top of my resume, which he'd had in front of him the entire time.
Looking back, I am fairly certain the recruiter I spoke with was high. Obviously I can't prove this, but everything about his behavior suggested it. But whether he was high or not, it was a very strange and unprofessional conversation.
I followed up afterward with a link to my online portfolio. I never heard anything after that.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
He asked what I had been up to lately, while looking at my resume.