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Not too many places will straight up ghost candidates that have done on-sites, that's pretty unusual. Sometimes they'll dangle candidates if they're waiting to

Not too many places will straight up ghost candidates that have done on-sites, that's pretty unusual. Sometimes they'll dangle candidates if they're waiting to hear whether their first choice accepts, but even then it's rare not to communicate at all once you've done an on-site.

kstenerud 7y ago
It happens a lot. Even Google ghosted me after an all-day onsite interview in Mountain View in 2015.
- throw_7893456 7y ago
  Microsoft did the same to me, the same year. Product owner/manager position.
  - zcw100 7y ago
    Bloomberg did it to me. Even blocked my phone number. I figured that out when I changed my caller id. It was back in the day when VoIP was new and they didn't expect that someone could do that. It was worth hearing the panic on the voice when they realized who it was. The only reason I called was because they stiffed my the reimbursement for travel expenses which they had agreed to pay for. The HR turnover was so high that everyone I had talked to before the interview was gone by the time I put in for the reimbursement.
    - reificator 7y ago
      > The HR turnover was so high that everyone I had talked to before the interview was gone by the time I put in for the reimbursement. Clearly things went your way if you didn't get the job in that environment.
    - boring_twenties 7y ago
      Interesting, when I worked at Bloomberg we had a standard form letter for rejections that was sent every time. (Email) Funny story about that, I'd set up a macro to fire off said email with one keypress. Finishing up a phone screen that went horribly, I thanked him for his time and all the other niceties, and pressed the key right as I was about to hang up. "But wait! I have some questions for you, too!" Cue the longest 5 minutes of my life.
      - NullPrefix 7y ago
        Couldn't you just say the same thing over the phone? Or do you need to keep the mask on during the call? As if the rejection is only possible in the next turn.
        boring_twenties 7y ago
        24-year-old me didn't create the process, I just followed it. Well except for the part about waiting until the call is really over ;) After reading some of the comments here about candidates who want to debate the interviewer's decision, it seems to make sense.
- ticmasta 7y ago
  Indeed did this to me after I completed and presented a 2-day paid project. Ironically for a role with their new assessment acqui-hire company...
avip 7y ago
I did 2 remote coding interviews for aws, years apart, and was ghosted twice.
RockIslandLine 7y ago
"Not too many places will straight up ghost candidates that have done on-sites, that's pretty unusual." It's probably at least 50% of my interviews. Roughly 1/4 of my interviews have any kind of follow up at all. It doesn't hurt to tell people that someone else was hired. Closure is important to job seekers.
- adamredwoods 7y ago
  My stats from my latest job hunt sprint are about 50% as well.
nisse72 7y ago
Aviat Networks flew me to Wellington for a whole day interview a few years ago. I was expected to prepare (in advance) a number of things including a technical presentation and detailed answers to a large number of questions, which took me several evenings and most of a weekend. I flew there on a monday for what was an exhausting full day of interviews before my return flight that evening. The recruiter phoned me the following day to say they were very impressed and would be making an offer, but there were some other people who wanted to meet me. So a few days later I took another day off work to fly down for a second round of meetings. At the end of this second day I was told that the senior manager was abroad and they would finalise the offer when he returned. I flew back home and waited a week or 10 days before emailing to hear how things were progressing. The recruiter responded "to recap, we are waiting for $manager to return before finalising the offer". That was about 7 years ago, and it was the last thing I heard from them. I get that employers can't be bothered responding to every CV that crosses their desk, but this was a demanding process that cost me several days effort and 2 days salary. Maybe they lied when they said they liked me, I have no idea and don't really care. But I certainly didn't expect to be ghosted after all that. A year or two later I had a new colleague who had been working there around the time of my interview, and I told him this story. His response? "You dodged a bullet".

kstenerud 7y ago

It happens a lot. Even Google ghosted me after an all-day onsite interview in Mountain View in 2015.

throw_7893456 7y ago
Microsoft did the same to me, the same year. Product owner/manager position.
- zcw100 7y ago
  Bloomberg did it to me. Even blocked my phone number. I figured that out when I changed my caller id. It was back in the day when VoIP was new and they didn't expect that someone could do that. It was worth hearing the panic on the voice when they realized who it was. The only reason I called was because they stiffed my the reimbursement for travel expenses which they had agreed to pay for. The HR turnover was so high that everyone I had talked to before the interview was gone by the time I put in for the reimbursement.
  - reificator 7y ago
    > The HR turnover was so high that everyone I had talked to before the interview was gone by the time I put in for the reimbursement. Clearly things went your way if you didn't get the job in that environment.
  - boring_twenties 7y ago
    Interesting, when I worked at Bloomberg we had a standard form letter for rejections that was sent every time. (Email) Funny story about that, I'd set up a macro to fire off said email with one keypress. Finishing up a phone screen that went horribly, I thanked him for his time and all the other niceties, and pressed the key right as I was about to hang up. "But wait! I have some questions for you, too!" Cue the longest 5 minutes of my life.
    - NullPrefix 7y ago
      Couldn't you just say the same thing over the phone? Or do you need to keep the mask on during the call? As if the rejection is only possible in the next turn.
      - boring_twenties 7y ago
        24-year-old me didn't create the process, I just followed it. Well except for the part about waiting until the call is really over ;) After reading some of the comments here about candidates who want to debate the interviewer's decision, it seems to make sense.
ticmasta 7y ago
Indeed did this to me after I completed and presented a 2-day paid project. Ironically for a role with their new assessment acqui-hire company...

avip 7y ago

I did 2 remote coding interviews for aws, years apart, and was ghosted twice.

RockIslandLine 7y ago

"Not too many places will straight up ghost candidates that have done on-sites, that's pretty unusual." It's probably at least 50% of my interviews. Roughly 1/4 of my interviews have any kind of follow up at all. It doesn't hurt to tell people that someone else was hired. Closure is important to job seekers.

adamredwoods 7y ago
My stats from my latest job hunt sprint are about 50% as well.

nisse72 7y ago

Aviat Networks flew me to Wellington for a whole day interview a few years ago. I was expected to prepare (in advance) a number of things including a technical presentation and detailed answers to a large number of questions, which took me several evenings and most of a weekend. I flew there on a monday for what was an exhausting full day of interviews before my return flight that evening. The recruiter phoned me the following day to say they were very impressed and would be making an offer, but there were some other people who wanted to meet me. So a few days later I took another day off work to fly down for a second round of meetings. At the end of this second day I was told that the senior manager was abroad and they would finalise the offer when he returned. I flew back home and waited a week or 10 days before emailing to hear how things were progressing. The recruiter responded "to recap, we are waiting for $manager to return before finalising the offer". That was about 7 years ago, and it was the last thing I heard from them. I get that employers can't be bothered responding to every CV that crosses their desk, but this was a demanding process that cost me several days effort and 2 days salary. Maybe they lied when they said they liked me, I have no idea and don't really care. But I certainly didn't expect to be ghosted after all that. A year or two later I had a new colleague who had been working there around the time of my interview, and I told him this story. His response? "You dodged a bullet".