[devy]

The site mentions about calling out companies who ghost candidates too, so I am offering my view from the employer's perspective. The hiring managers could be interviewing dozens if not hundreds of candidates - sometimes they are genuinely busy and they literally cannot spend countless hours to respond to every candidate they've spoken to tell them "No, we've passed on you".

Ghosting also happens in both way - as a hiring manager, I've had a many times where I had to reach out to the candidate patiently waiting for their response to the next round or getting back to me for a coding exercise with no response (the bad ones) or a "sorry, I forgot to tell you that I got the job already."

Finding a job is a lot like dating, it takes 2 parties to make it work. So just like ghosting in dating scene, ghosting in hiring process will always exist, it's not a technology problem but it's a human behavior problem. By the way, anonymously calling out the other party of ghosting is even worse IMO.

[kelnos]

> The hiring managers could be interviewing dozens if not hundreds of candidates - sometimes they are genuinely busy and they literally cannot spend countless hours to respond to every candidate they've spoken to tell them "No, we've passed on you".

Yes, they can spend that time, and no, it would not be "countless hours". I'm not even saying that recruiters must respond to every cold email they get with a resume. But if there's been any back-and-forth at all, the candidate is owed some kind of response, period.

> Ghosting also happens in both way - as a hiring manager, I've had a many times where I had to reach out to the candidate patiently waiting for their response to the next round or getting back to me for a coding exercise with no response

That's also shitty, and candidates shouldn't do that. But "candidates are disrespectful so I can be disrespectful too" is not an excuse.

> Finding a job is a lot like dating

No, it's not. Finding a job is a business transaction, while dating is a social/romantic activity.

And for the record: ghosting in dating sucks too.

Basically your argument boils down to "we're too busy, and everyone else is disrespectful in other parts of life, so this is fine". Not buying it.

[quadrifoliate]

> sometimes they are genuinely busy and they literally cannot spend countless hours to respond to every candidate they've spoken to tell them "No, we've passed on you".

We work in the software industry (well, a lot of us do). If individual human effort is not scaling, we write programs. "Dozens" or "hundreds" of candidates should be a cinch for a simple script to keep track of what candidates have been passed on; and they can be informed with a simple form letter.

If you don't have anyone at your company capable of writing these kinds of tools, maybe you should focus on hiring that person first. It will pay off in the longer run.

[xenocyon]

I've been a hiring manager as well, and I've never failed to inform interviewees waiting for a response. Treat it as an important priority, not an afterthought.