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I interviewed with 3 companies all remote positions and have been ghosted by all 3 of them.
by mathverse 4y ago
I interviewed with 3 companies all remote positions and have been ghosted by all 3 of them.
- digitalsushi 4y agowere you referred by recruiters or did you come in the front door?
- mathverse 4y agoNope i applied through their sites. Did 2-4h long take home assignments and went through 3-4 rounds and then never heard again from them.
- Uptrenda 4y agoDon't take it personally. You should expect a large number of companies to ghost you. It's just part of the process. Keep going and believe in yourself.
- tarentel 4y agoIt really shouldn't be. It doesn't take long or much effort to send a quick boilerplate email saying they're not hiring you.
- Clubber 4y agoYes, this has been going on since at least the early 2000s. It's really a dumb thing to do for the hiring company, particularly if there is more than a few days of contact. The person they want to hire just assumes they are being ghosted and immediately starts looking for additional opportunities, which equates to more competition for the hiring company. Had the original company stayed in contact, or it was common practice to stay in contact wether it's a hire or no hire, the hiring companies wouldn't have to deal with the extra competition created by no contact.
- mathverse 4y agoIt is especially bad cuz i sent a follow up email asking them about the status etc. no reply whatsoever
- mateo411 4y agoYou probably don't want to work at a company that behaves that way.
- spoonjim 4y agoIt shouldn't be, but it is. So the lesson when a company ghosts you shouldn't be one of personal insult (although it's hard to avoid that feeling), it should be "that company is poorly led and/or managed."
- JasserInicide 4y agoIt's just ridiculous though. It's a shitty trend that's filtered down from social/dating applications. A decade ago, I always got a follow-up rejection email. Sometimes it took months from bigger companies but it still came. Today: more often than not you're just ghosted. Milliennials now being in positions of power are 100% to blame for this. They see no difference between the conversation with a job candidate and that of the girl you fucked last week.
- marcus_holmes 4y agoI think it's more the trend of companies being scared of litigation. They can't be sued for discrimination if they never actually turned you down.
- willcipriano 4y agoThat's just an excuse for bad behavior. "We are going in another direction" isn't going to get you sued any more than radio silence will.
- teeceetime2 4y agoSerious question - Isn't the company opening themselves up to more litigation by ghosting? For instance, doesn't a hiring company have to have a legitimate reason for not hiring someone, otherwise they're opening themselves up to a discrimination lawsuit? "Because you gave me no reason as to why you didn't hire me, I'm now left to believe it was based it was on my ethnicity, which is illegal. So here's a lawsuit."
- marcus_holmes 4y agoI'm not a lawyer, just an MBA. But I believe it's the same principle as the famous "Shut The Fuck Up" advice for talking to cops. You have to incriminate yourself to be liable. If you don't say anything then you're presumed innocent (barring other evidence), and saying anything does you no favours.
- akhmatova 4y agoYou should expect a large number of companies to ghost you. It's just part of the process. I would say no - it's not part of the "process". Every company swears they are against ghosting (and are "shocked" when it gets publicly exposed), but they all keep doing it anyway. It's a reflection of the cynical, emotionally immature nature of this industry.
- Uptrenda 4y agoWhat's depressing as hell is when you first start searching for a job and you've put in a massive effort yet for like ~a week you get no responses. It really kills moral. But usually then all the replies come in a deluge and you wonder why you were ever worried to begin with. Job searching is a legit emotional roller coaster, lmaoo.
- akhmatova 4y agoAnd the irony is -- they suddenly think you're "hot" because you're getting competing offers (or competing invites to do 7 or 8 rounds of culture fit interviews and/or LC grinding, in any case). Which is another way for them to say: "Actually we really don't know how to evaluate these candidates, so instead we rely on random externalities, like the number of other interviews they're having this particular week."
- Uptrenda 4y agoAgreed. I also find it problematic that you have no control over the schedule of when the interviews start, when offers are made, how long companies might wait. E.g. if you have offers and you're still interviewing do you tell those companies to wait? If so - might they consider it a lack of interest? Possibly too much competition to waste further time on you with? Do you risk making them wait too long and rescinding an offer? idk... i wish there was a guide on how to handle this crap based on actual research. I've read from a recruiter not to indicate you have other offers at all because they're likely just to say to take them and not to proceed further. There are so many aspects of hiring that seem unknown.
- bityard 4y agoThat is extremely common, unfortunately, even before the pandemic.