It's extremely normal for recruiters to ghost you during the process, when they've found someone else or the open req simply went away. This is routine for thi

It's extremely normal for recruiters to ghost you during the process, when they've found someone else or the open req simply went away. This is routine for third-party recruiters, but also to be expected from in-house recruiters too. I've never scheduled an actual interview with an actual engineering person, and then be ghosted at that specific step. Years ago, I once had someone miss an initial technical phone screen, because a production outage came up minutes before the scheduled time. But even then, the company reached out shortly to let me know. I would not even consider moving forward with such a company as you're describing, especially in the current job market.