[tptacek]

I see the hiring conversation you had back in September '21; I don't see us canceling a meeting, but I'm sure that happened. That sucks!

Getting an inscrutable Russian Nesting Doll response from the erstwhile retail sales manager of a company asking you to set up Nomad on top of Nomad and ELK on top ELK is an off-putting experience, but it's the kind of off-putting experience we're comfortable giving people: what we're talking about is either going to click, or we're probably currently not a good fit, and that's fine.

On the other hand: the experience you apparently had, of going through our process and being unceremoniously jettisoned without explanation is off-putting in a different and less tolerable way. It's something we try hard never to do, but we're a small team (much smaller in 2021) and we screw up sometimes. I apologize.

[Cheezewheel]

Apologies are pretty damn cheap. The excuse of being a 'small team' is bizarre. Shouldn't a 'small team', of all places at least have the courtesy of not unceremoniously jettisoning candidates? It seems to be poorly indicative of a culture to both have the callous disregard for candidate experience like a large corporation while also lacking having the resources of one.

[quickthrower2]

ELK on top on Nomad, surely?

[tptacek]

Just trying to capture the spirit of the original poster's concern. :)