Monks contacted me with an automatic email to schedule a fit interview for a position at Media Monks, branch based in Colombia. I was interviewed by a recruiter that was reading straight from a script with a poker face and it felt truly impersonal and cold. At the end of the fit interview, she said I could move to the next phase and have an interview with the design lead. The interview with the design lead was better, it was more human and they asked personal and technical question such as experience in my previous roles, a quick portfolio walkthrough and things like that. He also shared details about the position and answered all my questions. After that call I got no follow-up, I sent two emails that they never answered, no rejection email, no nothing. The recruitment team seemed really unprofessional to me.

For some reason, they think a surprise topic for a technical interview is good, like if there are no AI advanced features to help with user interviews. They basically ask for you to do a one-hour consulting session about a domain you only know about 15 minutes before the interview. They say it is for equal evaluation of candidates, so all of them have the same preparation time, but at the end of the day is just a very confusing and hard session for no reason, favoring those that go well without preparation and disqualifying those who are well prepared and like to think ahead to not get surprised.