WeWork Project Manager interview questions

Did the initial screening with a recruiter from NY. He set up a meeting associates from local west coast office. Interview was casual yet professional. Later the recruiter notified me via email that I was not selected. I replied and asked why. He never responded back. I know I was more than qualified for the position, but just wanted to understand the circumstances.

I applied for functional management position that I had gained a vast majority of experience from in the military. After a couple of weeks, which allowed me to get a better handle on the company and prepare, I had a skype interview. All of my research indicated that the company had generally bad hiring processes and recruiting personnel, which I was proved right with a really novice recruiter. They had only been out of college for a couple of years but were apparently making decisions for higher level positions. The video-conference interview was a bad conversation from the start, not because of me or a lack of preparation, but because the recruiter was terrible. Short, rude, and fake. They totally discounted any military experience, essentially glossing over it to focus on a meaningless private sector role I currently held. Additionally, the recruiter did not understand the professional requirements or functional concepts of the position, asking the technical questions from a script. I could have said anything with buzzwords in it and gotten a nod. At the conclusion, they asked what compensation I was expecting. I gave the median for the role in the area and the recruiter attempted to tell me that WeWork was still a startup and they would have trouble accommodating this. Knowing I was going nowhere, I then asked if there were many other $20B startup companies that couldn't afford the median for their locations and how they planned to be successful if that continued, and the recruiter rolled their eyes and moved on. I received the deselection email the next morning, not enough time for a senior recruiter to make a decision. When I messaged back, politely asking for some feedback, I was told to call the recruiter on the phone--presumably so they couldn't be held accountable for the answer. All of this is a red flag, best of luck to those hired.