[kstrauser]

Almost as bad IMO are companies that auto-respond with messages like "we'll contact you in the next few weeks to discuss next steps". Next few weeks? Are you under the impression that your competitors are all sitting around twiddling their thumbs?

Yes, it's a hirer's market today, but that doesn't mean you can take your sweet time eventually getting around to interested applicants.

[dspillett]

> under the impression that your competitors are all sitting around twiddling their thumbs?

If the premise of the article is correct (that ghosting, and by inference other poor communication, is very much the norm) then that impression would hardly be massively inaccurate.