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> a polite rejection email is also sufficient The reason for the lack of those is that employers want to hedge their bets - emailing a rejection will make the
by Nextgrid 10mo ago
> a polite rejection email is also sufficient
The reason for the lack of those is that employers want to hedge their bets - emailing a rejection will make the candidate move on and potentially take another offer which would make them unavailable.
Letting them stew means the candidate may remain available if you suddenly change your mind or your top pick flakes out and you need a replacement on short notice.
It's understandable - what's less understandable is being butthurt about it when candidates start playing the exact same game and flake out because they too hedged their bets, picked another option and need to let you down.
- moregrist 10mo agoThis might make sense in the late stages of a hiring process (where it can veer into kind of unethical), but for early stages, it’s just not very compelling. At any stage, if you take more than a couple of weeks to a month, the applicant has probably moved on anyway. And for early stages applicants, almost no one is going to wait and not taking an offer in the hopes that they’ll hear back from a company that hasn’t given them feedback from a phone screen.