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Ask HN: Long notification period normal?
Hi there,
"recently", I have applied for an internship at IBM Research and Microsoft Research. In fact, almost two months have already passed without any notification whatsoever; one of the jobs I applied for has been taken off the available jobs platform, and I am not sure what to make of it. Since there are many other PhD students on HN, I thought I'd ask people here about their experience with application procedures for those labs. Is this kind of behavior normal, or should I start looking somewhere else?
Many thanks for any information!
- rewind 16y agoWhat's stopping you from emailing them or, better yet in this case, just calling them?
- doyouknow 16y agoAlready did, always getting non-informational answers, or none at all.
- cperciva 16y agoResearch positions are like VCs: It's hard to get a firm "no" out of them. If you haven't heard back after two months, assume that they're not interested and move on.
- doyouknow 16y agoMy guts tell me the same, but what the heck? A little bit of honesty would be very much appreciated...
- Scott_MacGregor 16y agoI have no direct experience with internships, but seems to me if the decision maker "committee or whatever" considered you as a "Hot" candidate they would be communicating with you in a straightforward manner. If after trying to talk to them they treated me like this, I would believe that they consider some other candidate more appropriate for the position (for whatever reason) and take appropriate actions to move forward in another direction.