Oh yeah. I, normally, put the company which does that in my blacklist. I give bonus points if it is a small startup which interviews a couple of people a week and still can't manage to do it. Extra bonus points if they contacted me first. Yes, it does happen.
Once a person from a local startup suggested to send him my CV at a meetup, 2 more people from they same company suggested to do the same. I got invited to come over, was told that there is no actual position so they just would see if I could fit in somewhere. Sounded very positive at the end. Sent a follow up thank you note. Never heard back.
I've personally interviewed a substantial number of candidates (phone screens and in-person interviews) for Amazon.
Amazon is very prompt about responding to candidates, but no decisions are ever made until the interviewers have a chance to sit down in a room together and discuss. So I don't know how the recruiter at the end of this account could have said half the things he is supposed to have said.
This account sounds like a specific recruiter made a series of huge errors and just kept on compounding those errors with bad decisions. That or there are some factual inaccuracies in the account.
In any case, my primary point is that I wouldn't write off an entire company due to what are likely the mistakes of a single individual, the recruiter who is supposed to be communicating with you.
In any case, my primary point is that I wouldn't write off an entire company due to what are likely the mistakes of a single individual,
Well, actually, I would. Because (being as it seems to keep happening, over and over again, in big companies and in small companies) clearly it's not the mistake of a single individual. The fault lies with the mindset of those who create the hiring culture in the company at large.
And the shabby treatment frequently dealt out to candidates may not be entirely consciously intended, but still, it is no "mistake." It is a perfectly predictable outcome of the hiring culture in these companies.
Totally correct. For me the interview/negotiating process is not finished until I walked into the office on my first day of work. Prior to that, anything can happened.
