That reply has a lot of worth to it. I very nearly worked for Yahoo many years ago and was very excited about it, but it fell apart at the last minute. In the e

That reply has a lot of worth to it. I very nearly worked for Yahoo many years ago and was very excited about it, but it fell apart at the last minute. In the end, what should have been my big red flag is how evasive they were every time I asked to talk to someone specifically from my team. I was given offers from multiple specific teams and had to choose one before I was given the details of the offer (i.e. salary and other benefits), so I had assumed there was a specific team. In the end their turned out to be a massive disconnect between my qualifications and what they were going to have me do. I really didn't appreciate it, especially after I had tried so hard to do more specific preparation from my end. Now I look at this standard reply and I think its genius. I'll go the extra mile for my employer but if they're that impersonal right off the bat it's probably not a good match. Sure, they're running at scale and maybe anything more isn't practical, but clearly it's not for me.