# The AI Recruiter Hung Up. It Was Not a Glitch.

**[TRUE STORY]** — by Software engineer · via r/recruitinghell

A candidate logged into a scheduled screening call and found themselves talking to an AI recruiter bot. Every time they tried to give a substantive answer, the bot cut them off with "That's great. Next question." When the candidate asked to speak to a human, the AI immediately ended the call — no follow-up, no reschedule, no human in the loop. The r/recruitinghell thread filled with similar reports. One commenter called it "peak dystopia" and asked the question the original post left hanging: if an AI recruiter can reject you in real-time, who exactly do you appeal to?

*Source: [r/recruitinghell · 4.2k upvotes](https://www.indiatoday.in/trending-news/story/man-gets-into-argument-with-ai-recruiter-during-interview-internet-says-same-here-2898076-2026-04-18)*
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