1. Spamming from AS. I was repeatedly sent emails from AS despite having no interest in the jobs. Hell, I hadn’t even expressed an interest in receiving the emails in the first place. They even phoned me up and I told them I was happy in my job and wasn’t interested, but they still kept sending emails to me for months afterwards. They’ve stopped sending them now, but it was somewhat irritating at the time.

2. HR problems.. The first thing I learned after gaining employment was simple: “bypass HR if you want to get anything done”. HR at my current company has some nice people, but they are poor at getting certain things done in a timely fashion and they often fail to spot good candidates. I’m guessing this is a fairly common occurrence.