Blacklisting companies that ghost you after interview
I am generally pretty good to recruiters, never schedule interviews if I am not looking out, never missed an interview after scheduling, never renegotiated an offer after saying yes and never backed off after accepting an offer. I also make sure I personally call other recruiters to tell them that I have accepted an offer and am no longer open for any negitations. Unfortunately a lot of recruiters do not have the same courtesy of keeping me informed after I have spent precious hours interviewing with them onsite and simply disappear if its a no or of they are still interviewing other candidates. Sometimes the interviewer does not show up and they go silent. I find is extremely disrespectful. How hard is it to say no ? I now keep my own blacklist of recruiters and companies who treated me like this. I block companies at the moment for 5 years and refuse to interview ( have 15+ years exp ) . If they can blacklist us, so can we. Do any of you also do this? Till now I have not started telling these companies that they have been blacklisted when they approach me again(typically they do again in a year or so) but sometimes feel like doing so.
This! Can’t tell you how long I’ve been thinking of creating a recruiter/company shit-list. Interviewing with such companies and recruiters is a colossal waste of time.
It seems like you’re blacklisting a lot of people/teams that may be drastically different in behavior for the unrelated behavior of one person/team. In the opposite direction, they are blacklisting 1 person who presumably has pretty consistent behavior. I could see blacklisting particular recruiters/teams, or blacklisting companies based on consistently getting the same behavior from multiple teams/recruiters.
I wish recruiting was standard at Amazon. I’ve had to work with some awful recruiters and a few great ones.
In the end it all comes down to who is needy at current moment. If I will lose my job, I won't give a damn if in past they ghosted me.
At least we will have a point of reference. We’re all here for the 🍿
I’m sure they are going to cry.
There are like 10k applications for every 1 job posting.
I agree with OP too and personally support if we collectively create a list of companies/recruiters who engage in those behaviors and avoid them until they change their behavior.
You’ll have to blacklist recruiters by name not whole companies to be effective. The recruiting experience varies a lot within the same company because the quality of their individual recruiters varies so much.
Its OK. You can rant on your burn here
They don’t have to. Nobody owes you anything
@OP whatever you described above is quite similar to romantic situations where you like/love someone but they don't. Sometimes saying no is harder than radio silence.