[austin-cheney]

Consider the organization. If all steps are managed by the dev team expect to be ghosted. If there is a HR staff involved expect to receive a response.

Developers, despite everything they claim, are more likely to fear confrontation. Denying a person a job is highly confrontational even when exceptionally polite. On the other side of the table it will likely be viewed as an unnecessary inconvenience.

I try to think about this optimistically. I wouldn’t want to work with people who are cowardly about talking to people or expressing business concerns openly. If it’s how they behave during hiring it’s how they will behave at work.

[siamese_puff]

That’s a very positive view of HR and this is NOT my experience working with large companies. It’s very hit or miss, some recruiters ghost and it blows my mind. I’m talking corporate and non-contract recruiters. Ghosted after doing 5+ hours of multi day interviews.