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Rude Phone Call Interviewer?
Interview Experience
I had a phone call interview today and when the interviewer called me my iPhone intercepted the call to screen the unknown number. If you don't know, iPhones can now answer your calls for you from unknown numbers and ask the reason for the call before and then your phone will ring. I believe this was a feature added in iOS 26 but I forgot I turned it on. I saw that my iPhone answered my call and was asking the interviewer the screening questions but the interviewer didn't answer the screening question and hung up before I could answer myself. I then called back immediately and apologized for missing the call and explained iPhones will sometimes screen unknown numbers. The interviewer then said that "It's not smart to do that when you are in the process of interviewing. It's very off putting. But, now that you're here I guess we can start." Him saying that to me really shook me and I felt off balance the entire interview. I was already nervous but that comment made it so much worse because I felt like the interview was over before it even started. I will turn off that iPhone feature from now on if I am expecting an interview but was it really that big of a deal? I feel like the interviewer very much overreacted and created a hostile interview environment before I could collect myself.