I interviewed for a Director-level role and initially had a strong experience with both the recruiter and the hiring manager. The conversation with the hiring manager was engaging, relevant, and seemed like a strong mutual fit. However, after the interview, communication stalled entirely for 11 days — no updates, no feedback, no courtesy email. Eventually, I received a vague voicemail from the recruiter asking me to call back. When I did, I discovered the recruiter’s office line didn’t even have a voicemail inbox set up. After calling again, I received a callback about 10 minutes later, which felt like intentional call screening. That call turned out to be a rejection, but it lacked detail or context. This kind of behavior — especially for a senior leadership role — felt unnecessarily opaque and dismissive. Recruiters should not make it harder to reach them than the hiring managers themselves. For a company of Akamai’s scale and reputation, this was surprisingly poor candidate care.