A recruiter from Inovia reached out to me via email. She said she had found me online and wanted to talk. There were some red flags apparent from the start. She didn't describe what the company does (highly confusing, since there are several companies called Inovia out there), nor did she describe the skills she was looking for in an applicant. I assumed she would tell me more during our phone call. That did not happen. She started the phone call by asking me a series of semi-technical questions, which was jarring because (1) I had assumed based on my background that it would be a design role, and (2) there was already so little context for the position that it felt especially impersonal to suddenly be interrogated. I was not ready for the questions she threw at me, and the impromptu way in which she did this made me disinterested in continuing the conversation. Overall, I'm sure Inovia is a nice place, but the recruiter came off as someone who was (1) cold, and (2) uninterested in candidates as people. I suspect she scraped the Internet for anyone who seemed remotely viable as a candidate, and probably spends the same amount of time interviewing them as she did me (i.e. 5 minutes). It was a very unpleasant call, probably the worst I've experienced.