Had a recruiter get back to me with positive feedback after an interview and then haven’t heard since. It’s been two weeks and multiple follow ups. I had a recruiter do a phone screen and then said waiting for feedback and it’s been over a month and keeps saying “waiting for feedback”. This market is absurd. And also, recruiters that are ghosting candidates, there’s no excuse. You’re just as absurd. You are making your company look bad and in the end you’re just going to lose good candidates 🖕🏼.
Maybe a chance that they may have been fired / laid off
Agree. It’s especially bad when the recruiters from the companies themselves can’t do their job.
At least call out the company on here so we can all know who to look out for. Company name not recruiter name obvi
For anonymous reasons I won’t
Sometime the hiring managers are jerks as well. One day they will give positive feedback next day they change their mind on the same candidate.
Eh that sounds unlikely
Happened to me before. It sucks
There’s a really reasonable chance they were laid off.
it’s the market
It's taking a hiring manager for almost a month to review my resume. It's not hard to read one page
I saw one recently laid off recruiter complaining that recruiter is ghosting him!! I wanted to comment, that’s what you did to me 2 years ago.
Some recruiters deserve it tbh
Just because you received "great feedback" is irrelevant if 3 other candidates received "excellent feedback". Ergo, you're in 4th place. If they're not getting back to you it's because, a) the hiring manager has gone AWOL; b) the position was canceled; or, c) they're pursuing other candidates who - for whatever reason (and there could be many) - are more to their liking.
If that’s the case, recruiter is wasting everyone’s time by giving me positive news to begin with
Not necessarily. On Monday you could be Number 1 candidate. By Wednesday, if 3 others have showed up, you could still be Number 1. Or Number 4. Candidates come and go constantly. The best guy you've ever met on a Monday could be 3rd choice by Wednesday. Especially right now with the market awash with candidates.
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I know it sucks, but don’t take it personally. If you were their top candidate, they wouldn’t be ghosting you. They’re either spineless and don’t want to give you tough feedback or they’re holding on to you in case their preferred candidate falls through.
They gave me good feedback though. Asked when I’m free to meet rest of team and haven’t heard back since
Is there any chance the recruiter got axed? Lots of recruiters have been getting fired lately.