| > 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. |