[staticautomatic]

Unless you consider the company's reputation and good will a resource...

[krapp]

Except this is already standard operating procedure for most companies, and it doesn't seem to have affected them.

[meowface]

It probably does affect them, though, whether they're aware of it or not. Some of the best talent they can get probably reads HN threads like these. A prospective great employee could easily read this thread, see stories of company X ghosting people, and decide to avoid them.