I had 3 interviews for a Senior Data Analyst position over the past two weeks and received a rejection email today. I was going to withdrawal from consideration anyway given how the last interview went, but I want to know if it would be unprofessional to reply to the rejection email from the recruiter with details about how I was blatantly disrespected in the last interview. Details below:
The initial phone screening with the recruiter was great. He was very nice and answered a lot of questions and affirmed that I have all the required expertise for the job and quickly moved me onto the hiring manager. I met with the hiring manager a few days later and, again, that was great and he was great. Next step was a technical assessment that was 90 minutes and was broken down between SQL, Tableau, and general analysis skills. Again, within a couple days the recruiter reached out and said I scored well above the threshold to move forward so they moved me to the next round which is where things went south.
I was interrogated for an hour and 15 minutes about everything I’ve ever done from high school to now. I was asked why I chose the college I did despite the fact that I’ve been out of college and in analytics for 6 years now. I was asked the exact dates I attended college and questioned about what I did between graduating and staring my first job 3 months later at the end of the summer because that was a “suspicious gap”. I was asked my exact GPA and when I said “it was right around a 3.3”, he scoffed and said “we usually like people to have exceeded expectations academically.” And asked how I spent all my free time back then. I was an ncaa athlete, had two majors, two part time jobs, and was a peer tutor. He said a lot of other at the company made more of an impact in their undergrad experience and asked me what my biggest “rock bottom moment” as a college student was. Clearly my stressors from when I was 19 are very important for this role.
Then came the prt of the interview where I was individually grilled about every job I’ve ever had and why I “wasn’t promoted” there. My first job out of college was at an AdTech firm where I worked in analytics. I was there for two and a half year and ended up leaving in late 2020 because I needed a change post pandemic and because I knew I wanted to work in analytics within the financial industry. The interviewer asked for the exact name, spelling, and title of my manager and asked that if he reached out to him on the spot, he would give the same story. (Yikes). He continued to do that for the two jobs I’ve had since then and, at once point, rolled his eyes when I said I wanted to transition from working for a big bank to a fintech startup because I wanted to be in a more fast paced place where I could have a bigger impact.
Not sure why I was grilled about all this and why this was the entirety of the questions I was asked when I had already gone over my background and education with the recruiter and all of my qualification with the hiring manager beforehand.
My question is, this was clearly a horrible experience and it won’t change my candidacy status, but should I respond back to the recruiter and (respectfully) detail this horrible experience? There is a Glassdoor review from three days ago from someone interviewing for the same role that had a very similar negative experience and I would be sick to my stomach if someone else had the same experience, knowing I didn’t do everything I could to make it at least a little better.