I applied for a SA position in Tel Aviv, Israel. My name sounded somewhat Israeli, which may have helped me get through to the assessment stage and then a phone (video) interview. However, during the call, the interviewer’s attitude shifted drastically once he realized I wasn’t Jewish. He became noticeably hostile and started asking deliberately trivial and misleading questions, seemingly just to make me stumble.

The interview process started with a prep call with the recruiter. This was unique as they provided you with an outline of how the process of interviewing would go and gave you clear direction of what the interviewers would ask and are looking for. This took about 30 minutes After the recruiter prep call, another interview was setup a week later. This was supposed to be the hiring manager but was with changed to an integration specialist as well as someone who was shadowing the call. The interviewers did not care about my background and even cut me off and told me they already read my resume when I was providing an introduction of myself. They were only concerned with their set of questions and getting answers from me. It was very cold. The interviewers also had a level of arrogance to them as they challenged how things operated within my current company and felt that what I explained to them could not of been right. The impression of the 2nd interview felt like I was a burden to these gentlemen and they wanted to hurry through the process. They also did not ask questions that aligned to the prep call with the recruiter. Definitely a disconnect in expectations. The recruiter provided a great experience where the interviewers did not.