Ask HN: What to do when ghosted halfway through an interview process
2 by effectorcupped | 5 comments on Hacker News.
I'm interviewing at a company I'm very excited about. The interview process has 3 steps: traditional screening/culture fit call with a recruiter, technical challenge with an engineer and then an onsite. I've passed the two initial steps with flying colors (or so I though). The recruiter call was great and he verbally confirmed that he enjoyed the talk and would move forward my application. The technical challenge was good as well; I completed it in maybe 1/3 of the total available time and had good rapport with the engineer. This was two weeks ago. The recruiter had initially said that he would definitively answer any emails I sent his way. I have sent two: one last week, one today. I have received nothing in response. This isn't my first time doing an interview and I'm not new at the industry (this is a throwaway account). I'm wondering if maybe the engineering team is just taking longer than usual to convene and make a decision, maybe holiday schedules or something, but still I feel I should have received at least a ping back from the recruiter. I would definitively expect this if I had had poor performance, but that wasn't the case so I'm a bit aghast about how things are panning out.
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