That's a good point. I usually avoid recruiters since I think they had noise to the process and don't really add any value, but in this case they would have he

That's a good point. I usually avoid recruiters since I think they had noise to the process and don't really add any value, but in this case they would have helped. But they probably would have done what I did, pinged the companies to know what was going on. They may have done it sooner and not waited like I did, but the companies probably wouldn't have spontaneously provided the information.