Company ghost candidate for 3 weeks after final interview, get rejected when they send a job offer: 'No call, no explanation'

If a company doesn't care about your time before you get hired, what's to say that things are going to change after?

Although there is a lot of pressure on the job candidate to make a good impression with a potential employer, it is also vital that the company that is hiring also does the most to make sure they come across as a decent place to work. The more that they mess around with interviewees and give little thought to how they come across, the less likely they are to attract good quality employees.

Sadly for those seeking work, this is not a lesson that a lot of employers are interested in learning. Finding new hires is yet another badly organized inconvenience, and those who apply for jobs with them are made to feel it. Candidates may be more grateful to land interviews in this dire job market, but their feelings are not necessarily going to stay that way when they face this kind of behavior. If they do not start to look for better opportunities immediately, they will almost certainly quit this job as soon as they have the time to find a better offer. 

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  • A job candidate takes a call while sitting in front of a laptop and looking at papers
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    A job candidate takes a call while sitting in front of a laptop and looking at papers 

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  • A job applicant was happy to get a last minute phone interview with a company not long after he applied. After that, he was invited to a team interview which he believed went well, and was told he would be hearing from them soon.

    However, this turned out not to be the case, with his potential employer constantly brushing off his requests for an update over a period of several weeks. 

    Eventually, they emailed him a job offer with no warning, although he had already accepted a better paid role at another company. They were irritated to find that he was no longer interested.

  • Job ghosted me for 3 weeks after final interview, now guilt tripping me

    I applied at a company and a week later I got a call from the hiring manager asking if I could have an impromptu interview on the phone. I wasn't doing anything but playing COD, so I agreed. Had a really good talk for about 45 minutes. At the end she asked if I could do a video interview the next day with
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  • the guy I would be replacing as he was leaving the company. I agreed and that went well. I was feeling good.
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  • They asked me to come in and meet the rest of the team a few days later. I agreed and it ended up being a gauntlet style interview with 9 people asking me all kinds of questions. I survived, got great feedback and said I should be hearing something soon.
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  • A job candidate holding a pen puts his head in his hand while taking a call and sitting in front of a laptop and some papers
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  • A week goes by and I hear nothing, so I reach out. They say there is one other candidate they want to interview and they will make their decision. In the meantime a recruiter contacts me for another company on Monday, by Friday I had an offer in my email that paid more than the original company.
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  • A week after that, the original company randomly shoots me an offer letter in my inbox. No call, no explanation for the 3 weeks since my final interview, no nothing. I make them sweat for a few days and kindly explain that during those 3 weeks of silence, I found
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  • something else and wish them the best of luck. They responded by saying they turned down alot of good candidates in favor of me and how they even upped the salary to meet my demands and how I am putting them in a bad position.
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  • I let them know that they put me in a bad position for ghosting me for 3 weeks and now expecting me to jump at their offer? Also, they had the wrong first name on the offer letter!
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  • I don't know when companies started to devalue job candidates so much, but it needs to change.
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  • A job candidate sitting in front of a laptop has one hand on a phone, and the other writing on some papers
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    A job candidate sitting in front of a laptop has one hand on a phone, and the other writing on some papers

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  • mdws1977 Good for you. If companies want to slow things down like that and not keep in touch with their potentials, then they risk losing good people at their own fault, not yours.
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  • Brain WaveCC Kudos to you. They thought they had the upper hand, and miscalculated.
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  • All the best in your new role. This is also a good reminder to not sweat over job hunting processes that seem stalled or headed to ghost mode. Keep moving forward until something you're working on sticks.
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  • laughingf rtsplease during those 3 weeks, they hired someone else, found out they're trash and now coming back to you. their silver medal. fk them
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  • GenericStandard42 Any company that can't get back to a candidate within a week at most after a final interview is a big red flag. I'm willing to bet they had others in front of you but they declined, which is why there were delays.
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  • cervidal2 You weren't their first choice. You probably weren't their second choice. I would hazard that you weren't even their third choice.
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  • Those three weeks were their other preferred candidates shooting them down. I have been in that position before. It really let me turn the screws on them for starting salary and benefits.
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  • zyzmog I don't know if this is valid or not, but I think that the way a company runs its hiring procedures is a reflection of the way the company runs its business. You will be glad you didn't go to work for a company like that -- you would
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  • spend most of your time being frustrated by decision-making delays and by lack of communication. That's no way to run a business.
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  • Specialist Goat_2354 Awesome! Maybe they will learned that they don't hold all the cards. (They won't) f em.
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  • AlgaeFew8512 During those 3 weeks they offered the position to other candidates who either returned it down, asked for more money than you, or started and left shortly afterwards. Then they offered it to you. You're right to turn it down for another job after all the hoops you jumped through and waiting around.
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