-Friday, September 17th. Cisco Sales Engineering Manager referred me to a Sales Engineering Opening he recommended me for. Applied online. -Friday, October 8th. Receive a calendar invite (a Microsoft, Outlook .ICS file) via email. Since the email contains an attachment from an address I’ve never communicated with it goes to my Spam folder where I find it around Noon local time. I whitelist the address and have to open it with a text editor to actually read it. Invite states “10:30 - 11:00 08 Oct. I will call you. Send me # to call -T”. Replied back that I wasn’t available until later that afternoon and provided my contact # and a block of time to speak. Also noted I was leaving for vacation the following week but provided several times later in the week that I’d make myself available. I found it odd that I wouldn’t get an email, or a call, just a calendar invite with a couple hours notice. I can’t Accept, Decline, or Propose a new time, and I can’t tell what timezone the thing is in either. -Sunday, October 10th. No reply email back, just another calendar invite (Outlook.ICS file) from T. Invite is for Monday and states “16:30 - 17:00 11 Oct”. Reply back that the time doesn’t work and that as I’d already mentioned, here are several times that work later that week. -Wednesday, October 13th. After not hearing anything back I sent an email, re-stating the times that worked for me, and requested that we nail down a time to speak. -Thursday, October 14th. Receive another calendar invite. Invite is for that day, “12:30 - 13:00 14 Oct” I will call you”. I replied back confirming the time and provided my contact information. -Thursday, October 14th. After 10-15 minutes waiting for this guy to call, I email him while waiting, asking him to call me, did something change, do you need to reschedule? Nothing. Never mind it's my vacation. -Monday, October 18th. Sent email asking if T what he wanted to do. Provided several times I was available. -Wednesday, October 20th. Receive an email from T with his phone# to call him. Called him back and finally spoke with the guy. He apologized for not calling the week before, went on about how extremely busy he was, that he misplaced my resume and could I send it to him, had to run but that he wanted to schedule a call for the coming Friday morning. Since he couldn’t tell me a time that worked I told him my entire Friday morning would be set aside to get this done. T said he’d send me an invite later that day (that he never did) -Thursday, October 21st. Left voicemail and sent email asking if he’d nailed down a time for Friday morning. Later that day I get a calendar invite “07:30 - 08:00 Friday 22 Oct”. He provided his # for me to call him at. I replied back, and confirmed time. -Friday, October 22nd. Called at 7:30am and could hear that the guy was going through an airport. He said he couldn’t speak (no, really? gate change announcements, foot traffic, background noise) and that he would call me that weekend to set up a Video Conference for Monday. Monday came and went, never heard from the guy. I called him and would always get his voicemail, leave message, nothing. Later in November T sent an email saying he wanted me to drive into a Cisco office for a Video conference but he didn’t have a time set up, so very busy. I replied back and put the ball in his court since he’d flaked out so many times. Never heard back (shocker). I clued in the employee who referred me to what I'd been dealing with but it's not like he can call the guy out for bad behavior, didn't want to get involved. Had to figure T had another candidate for the position or maybe the requisition was frozen, in any case there was no motivation to manage the interview with any amount of professionalism, or concern for people's time. And it's not like we were talking about an opening to push a broom over there, it's a senior level Engineering opening. I interviewed at Little Caesars for minimum wage in highschool that was better managed than this goat rodeo. BTW- While all this was going on, was also interviewing with a competitor. They actually knew how to interview and valued my time. I accepted their offer.