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Hey, at least it was Amazon. I had a similar experience interviewing for an _airline_ company a few years back. A recruiter contacted me, mentioned a job open
by commandlinefan 8y ago
Hey, at least it was Amazon. I had a similar experience interviewing for an _airline_ company a few years back. A recruiter contacted me, mentioned a job opening they had. You know how job postings list 20 different “requirements” but they don’t expect you to actually have all of them? I actually did have expert-level experience at every single item on their list. They phone-screened me, brought me onsite for three in-person back-to-back interviews (during normal working hours, so I had to take time off of my then-current job to go interview). They called back a few days later and said they wanted to bring me back onsite AGAIN for a full day of back-to-back interviews. So I took another PTO day, showed up and interviewed for 6 hours (9 different interviwers) - only to never get another call back.
- tracker1 8y agoI have to agree... I feel the lot-drop approach from many large companies is FAR worse than at least some feedback. In the end, I do feel it's often more about personality and culture than anything technical, once you get past the pre-screen technical interviews.
- pmiller2 8y agoLot drop?
- tracker1 8y agoReference to a car salesman leaving you in the lot... not returning. Many companies just drop all contact at any given point.
- arwhatever 8y agoI'm working on a way to track and report metrics on this "lot dropping," which I had labeled "ghosting," but I'm not sure if it'll go anywhere.
- shshhdhs 8y agoHow would you track that? From gathering anecdotes on HN?
- mrhappyunhappy 8y agoWhy would you apply for a job where you have expert level knowledge of everything? Seems you’d be overqualified if the job was not challenging.
- ahel 8y agoSame happened here. I was junior so I blamed myself at first.