[kleiba]

This is a pet peeve of mine. In the olden days, pre-digital, companies would send you a proper letter back together with your application documents so you could possibly reuse them. That was actually a little work for them to do!

These days, sending an effing canned email to all applicants that didn't get hired costs a company next to nothing, and still ghosting happens.

It's indecent.

[arprocter]

I recall being taken aback to receive a dead tree rejection letter in the mid 2000s (the only interaction had been me emailing my CV)

The recruiters that meet you in person, talk a big game and then complete silence annoy/confuse me the most - possibly they get commissions for signups?

[forinti]

I once applied to a position in the IAEA. I didn't get the job, but they sent me a letter. I kept that letter for a decade because it was such an unusual occurrence in my carreer.

I got a nice letter from a UN agency, when local companies couldn't be bothered to send an email.

[firebat45]

In the olden days, people took time to apply for each job. Nowadays, they spam out applications to hundreds of places in a day.

The problem is on both ends and stems from rewarding quantity over quality.

[barbazoo]

Can’t expose the precious organization to any form of liability. What if you accidentally leak the internal communication about the candidate *eyeroll*