[bogomipz]

And yet this is far from the first complaint I have seen of you folks not giving candidates the respect of following up with them after they invested their time. The response is always something along the lines of "let me check what happened..."

This seems like a regular complaint I read here on HN when your company posts your latest blog entry for discussion. There is at least one other person on this same discussion with the same experience as well.

[compumike]

We interview a lot of software engineers every week. In my experience, the missing feedback email is rare, and the fix is almost always getting an updated email address, or finding our feedback email randomly caught in a spam folder.

[bogomipz]

I don't see why the volume matters here, basic courtesy should be baked in to the process.

I would think that if someone has spent 3 or 4 hours interviewing over the course of 3 or 4 weeks then its probably a good assumption that email address that is being used for scheduling is up to date. I would also think that the average software engineer who is anticipating feedback regarding interviews knows to look in their spam folder.