[slt2021]

People dont have time to respond to each and every applicant, given that there are 100s of them for each job. And teams have multiple job opening.

Also they have current job responsibilities/deliverables which are of higher priority.

Basically you can only expect good communication if you are top tier candidate for a critical job function, and company really really needs you. If job is not business critical - it will be slow.

Most of companies are freezing hiring/slowing down, and are not as desperate for people as they were before.

[goosedragons]

What frustrates me is many many companies will force you to rehash your resume into individual fields so they can search it up in some database better but they can't have the courtesy to have a "reject" button somewhere in whatever client they are using that tosses out a template email. It's ridiculous. Loads of effort to make their life easier, zero concern for the people applying.

[rupi]

This.

Also, I have friends in high level HR roles and HR functions have become smaller and smaller over time with a lot of offshoring and outsourcing. So a lot of 'nice to do' things that were traditionally done by HR simply aren't done anymore.