Some companies can't even be bothered to respond _during_ the process, let alone with feedback after! A couple of years ago a company send me a detailed take-h

Some companies can't even be bothered to respond _during_ the process, let alone with feedback after! A couple of years ago a company send me a detailed take-home project that was supposed to take about a week with an engineer assigned to answer any questions I had, and by the day before it was due, neither the engineer or the recruiter hadn't bothered to respond to a single one of my three questions I replied with over the next few days, including a basic yes-or-no clarification about whether one of the libraries they listed as okay to use included one of its optional but extremely common extensions. When I replied on final time on the thread saying that spending any more time on the project would be a waste of my time and that I was no longer interested, the recruiter finally responded a day later saying "sorry, that engineer was busy" and adding a new engineer to the thread. It was a waste of time for me, but I also realized that I probably dodged a massive bullet by not working there. An engineer not proactively telling the recruiter they won't have time due to unexpected work or a recruiter not noticing the lack of response from the engineer assigned to their candidate might be an individual failure, but both happening without anyone involved seeming to notice or care is a pretty good sign of dysfunction at the organizational level.