After making a lowball verbal offer, Microsoft recruiter ghosted on me after promising to get back to me 2 weeks ago. Should I reach out to the hiring manager? Is it normal for Microsoft to take that long to come up with another offer?
I've never ghosted a candidate, if I like you and want to hire you, you're getting an offer letter in 2 days or less. Interviewing is hard and a drag to BS around. If I don't like, then I won't follow up on if HR or recruiter followed up. I just let them know and move on.
Reach out, you have nothing to loose
I’m a recruiter. Yes, please reach out to the hiring manager or someone else from the recruiting team. Candidates deserve responses from interviews, especially if there’s any talk of an offer.
I don't understand why they even ghost. Why is it so hard to tell no to candidates, its not like we won't be able to take it. Way worse to take on the nerve wrecking wait.
I got the feeling that the team really liked me. Skip level was pitching the team and we actually also discussed salary expectations. The hiring manager let me know right away that they are moving with an offer. I completely understand between now and 1.5 months back, when I interviewed with them, they might have found better candidate/s. But, I don't get the point in ghosting like this.
https://www.teamblind.com/article/Microsoft-Verbal-Offer-and-Withdrawal-ak1TqvLA Good luck
Maybe the recruiter got fired?
I had that happen to me and they had ended the recruiter's contract. I reached out to the hiring manager and got a prompt interview.
Since that was a lowball offer for you, the recruiter would have conveyed this to the HM. And probably they were tight on budget so they might have reached out to other candidates who would be happy with that offer. Since the HM did not pursued your offer further, the recruiter chose to ghost out. Recruiters are just a pendulum, they cannot do much. Everything depends on the HM. Good luck!!
Reach out to hiring manager. Recruiters are generally quick in responding when they want you to join
Did you reject that verbal offer?
Yes I did. I must also mention I did nothing to annoy the recruiter in any way.
In that case, the recruiter must have conveyed this to the HM. The HM may have decided not to bump the offer for a variety of reasons and conveyed back to the recruiter. I would move on but dropping an email to the HM will not hurt anyway. Worst case, the person doesn’t respond.
Reaching out to manager will be an answer which is same as ghosting. No use, do it if you want to really get to an answer!