Normal or standard aren't the right way to describe this kind of behavior. Common? Yes. Professional? No. Courteous? Not at all. The companies that get away w

Normal or standard aren't the right way to describe this kind of behavior. Common? Yes. Professional? No. Courteous? Not at all. The companies that get away with unprofessional or uncourteous behavior are typically the ones with lots of power in the job markets they operate in. That doesn't make this behavior acceptable any more than wage theft is, but it also doesn't notably harm these companies given the plentiful supply of candidates who are forced to put up with such behavior.