>The last thing said to me upon exiting the interview, again, all smiles and handshakes, was, "I'll give you a call tomorrow. But if you don't hear from me, give me a call."
>Fuck that. From the moment I left their building, I never gave them another thought. As expected, I didn't hear a peep from them.
I don't understand, why wouldn't you give them a call? I mean, sure, if it's not the place for you then it's fine, but just putting it off because of that.. I do not understand. At least they had the human decency of letting you know that they might be busy and forget to give you a call, and encouraged you to remind them. Way better than most other companies that just ignore you altogether and pretend you never even existed.
So far I have never forgotten to call or email a candidate when I personally told them I would do it. I put it in my todo list and then it gets done. This "being busy" is just a lame excuse.
I guess it depends on how many candidates you interview in a day. I suspect that there is a point where taking the time to be the bearer of bad news just doesn't seem to be worth it anymore. But I guess at that point one should stop promising to call or email candidates.
If you are being asked to interview candidates (especially if you are being asked to coordinate/lead the interviews), then you should also have the time/bandwidth to do the follow-up work with the candidates, even if that means sending them a canned response.
Another comment noted that we're talking about common human decency here--a candidate took time out of their schedule to spend a good chunk of a day (likely more, counting phone screens and travel), and someone can't take a few minutes to even respond to an email. I'm not sure I'd want to work with/under someone like that.
>Fuck that. From the moment I left their building, I never gave them another thought. As expected, I didn't hear a peep from them.
I don't understand, why wouldn't you give them a call? I mean, sure, if it's not the place for you then it's fine, but just putting it off because of that.. I do not understand. At least they had the human decency of letting you know that they might be busy and forget to give you a call, and encouraged you to remind them. Way better than most other companies that just ignore you altogether and pretend you never even existed.