Applied online and was contacted by the recruiter. They wanted me to schedule a call with the Hiring Manager the very next day, outside of work hours to accommodate schedule. The call with the Hiring Manager was great as well. After that the recruiter never reached back out to me. I was a little disappointed with the lack of communication and rejection, specially after indicating high interest and requesting to accommodate schedules.

Ghosted, after putting in so much time and effort. I don't think that there is any excuse for ghosting candidates, after multiple follow ups. Its understandable that sometimes situations might have changed, say the role is being put on hold. But the least one can do is to acknowledge that they are working on providing an update. There is a high level of accountability problem across the board for recruiters these days. They have one job (literally there is someone else for scheduling). I won't be naming names, but what goes around comes around. After all Its a small recruiters' market.