Recruiter contacted back after ghosting

If you're no longer interested, just treat it as a practice run to keep your interview skills sharp.

Depends entirely on your current circumstance man. If you need a job or you really hate your current job you need to swallow your pride.

Even if you were their second/third choice, their first/second choice didn’t worked out. They reached out to you after 2 months means they aren’t getting good candidates, so they need someone desperately. You can offset the delay by asking more $$.

Go thru the process Get to offer stage Then ghost the recruiter

Lol I had almost exactly the same experience with Dropbox except that i waited for one month not two. Their recruiting practice is a joke.

Lots of these type of “general” job postings are for any random number of open recs. They’ll post an opening. Get 20K recs and then sort through them. When they go through their batch they open them up again and get another 20K. Often these candidates aren’t really sorted meaningfully. They’ll give a hiring manager a few dozen to look at. That takes time. I wouldn’t read anything into it at all in terms of your positioning in the hiring system. Obviously they are interested enough to move forward. Interviewing is expensive for a company. They pay their people a lot of money (usually always more than you as you’re trying to get that higher paying job by interviewing with them). So the fact that they’re willing to make that investment should say something.

Do the interview. Lots of things happen in a company. I was once contacted 4 months after my application and then 2 months after the phone screen. It turned out to be a fantastic job. The team was in the midst of being acquired and their one HR person left. It wasn’t personal. Even if you’re not first choice, so what? You may turn out to be the better choice. Don’t take this job search thing personally.

Why wouldn’t you move forward? This isn’t a date, it’s business: don’t get your feelings hurt by business decisions, and when an interesting opening presents itself take it. Who cares if you weren’t their first choice two months ago? It’s two months later and clearly things have changed.

I said yes but you actually do have something to lose. If you fail the interview you’d probably have to wait 6 months to a year to re-interview. So you could be burning that bridge by not taking it seriously, e.g., treating it as practice.