Would you apply to another position at a company that did this? Personally, I have decided to blacklist every company that does this on general principle, not only for the perceived lack of courtesy, but it seems to be a harbinger of corporate dysfunction. What are your thoughts on this practice?
I'd have let that slip, but then I saw they called me Sergey (my name is Ignacio)...
moral of the story: each person has their own tolerance for mistreatment. Mine, personally, has thinned. Life is too short to eat shit while grinning.
I'd say only 5 % actually read that (even if the relevant conversations are higher than 5%, I have yet to see an irrelevant one that included the food topic).
In retrospect I can see I handled this badly. I should have reached out a few days after they went silent, and years later I should have engaged with them. No one gained from these events, but one party - me - missed out on an opportunity.
Ghosting probably does hint at some dysfunction within a company, but some dysfunction is a normal state. Sometimes you can just be unlucky, maybe someone in the interview process suddenly left, maybe there was some minor internal re-org, who knows.
Use them as opportunity to practice your interview skills. If this time they make an offer and you have another offer, use that to negotiate hire salaries. And if you decide to go with the other company, ghost this company.
It's not really a question of it being personal. If it's a signal that the process is broken or a recruiter is overworked, though, that's a really huge red flag and that company should be avoided or at least treated with great caution.
If it’s a small company, different story. Any company that could feasibly qualify as “big?” Ya, just bad luck perhaps
But also it's not just extremely common, but it's practically the norm. It's just how things are. It's annoying but it doesn't actually affect your planning or anything. If you go in with this as the expectation, then it might not bother you as much because you're already expecting it.
I'd say if they ghost you and they aren't a massive company they probably aren't professional enough to really pursue further and likely would just be a bad place to work in general.
I honestly take more offense to rejection letters that claim "we'd love to stay in touch!" or something with similar ingenue bubbly language.
Ghosting is very rude and reflects poorly on companies that do it, but there are much worse practices in the grand scheme of things.
i would treat it like a 504 error
Either that or they lose people as a matter of process and need a constant funnel. This is probably worse.
Generally, organizations don’t hire for the ability to find slights and hold grudges. So to me that might indicate potential cultural misfit with regard to some corporate work environments.
where the manager verbally assured me I'd be invited back for the next round
In a large organization, most managers lack full hiring discretion…usually they lack full discretion on everything personnel related. That’s how corporations run themselves. Good luck.
> In a large organization, most managers lack full hiring discretion…usually they lack full discretion on everything personnel related. That’s how corporations run themselves. Good luck.
That's true, but then the manager shouldn't have made that verbal assurance.
Or maybe like the OP, the manager did not intuit bigger pictures.
Who is harmed by blacklisting a company? The company will just hire someone else, and you potentially won't have a salary.