Please no recruiter phone screens. It's just a choreographed dance where everybody knows what's goin to happen. The recruiter sells you the company about x, y, z values that nobody cares about. The candidate says something about looking for bigger opportunities and challenges.
You're right although multi-armed bandit problem doesn't address all the problems in the real world. E.x. adding different slot machines (prices) intelligently, or discounting past data without using magic parameters