Filled out an online application. Almost a month later received an e-mail to complete an assessment. After the assessment received a call to schedule a phone interview for the following day.
The assessment was not difficult. There were vocabulary questions, sentence structure, basic math and personality based questions.
The phone interview is where everything went left. The recruiter called late. No big deal things happen. She threw some incomplete information at me about the position. She reiterated that the training would be 14 weeks, and asked me more than once if that was ok. She kept stressing that this was "the end of the process and I was one of the last people she was calling". She sounded incredelous when she asked me about the school where I got my Bachelors degree (A nontraditional university with the same accreditation as a traditional university). She cut me off while I was answering questions. While I answered questions there was complete silence, not even typing. The interview lasted a little under 30 minutes. She ended the interview with a reminder that this was the end of the process and they wanted to be done with everything in the next couple of days.
The phone interview came across like I was someone that needed to be checked off a list. This did not feel like a recruitment effort but more like a "cleaning out the files" necessity. If I did not meet the criteria or I wasn't a candidate they wanted to consider that would have been fine. Send the auto rejection e-mail and we can all move on. But don't take a candidate through the process to meet quota or because of whatever other unnecessary policy you have in place.
After the phone interview I went on the website to withdraw my application but they don't have that option.