Recruiters schedule an interview, interviewer doesn't show up, recruiter is unreachable - does this happen to you too?
Posted by r1sh1_b13@reddit | ExperiencedDevs | View on Reddit | 19 comments
I graduated from a Tier 1 college in CompSci. I have 10+ years of experience. I also have a career gap of 2 years now. Lately I have noticed that the relationship between candidate and recruiter has been corrupted. Many times it has occurred that after an interview is scheduled, the interviewer doesn't show up and later the recruiter is unreachable. This has happened at both startups and large MNCs.
Is this happening to you too? Or is it just me because I have a career gap?
Is this how we want to treat each other? Once we realize that the other party is of no use to us, do we just disappear? without any message, without any reason? Will recruiters appreciate similar behaviour from candidates, that after accepting an interview call, they just disappear wasting interviewers time? What is stopping you from dropping a message about candidates rejection or cancellation of interview beforehand?
Sorry if I ranted too much but it seems like we have thrown any morals out of the window and are treating it like a transactions.. might as well stop calling it a HUMAN resource dept.
davearneson@reddit
I haven't seen this. Is it happening in a particular nation or culture?
r1sh1_b13@reddit (OP)
I am from India.. and we have enough supply of developers for companies to care about looking bad towards an individual
davearneson@reddit
Does India have a culture of avoiding situations by ghosting people?
r1sh1_b13@reddit (OP)
I dont think its a systemic issue.. but I have been observing this probably due to high supply and maybe my peculiar case
RecentSubject3918@reddit
This occasionally happens at my company, but it’s never on purpose.
I’m on west coast US and conduct interviews. All of the recruiters that schedule the interviews for me are overseas with different working hours. Most of the interviews I conduct are outside the recruiters hours.
So if I mess up and miss the interview (family or work emergency, recruiter scheduled an interview while I was on vacation, etc) you’d have no way to really reach anyone.
We definitely apologize and reschedule if that happens
r1sh1_b13@reddit (OP)
I mean its been few days now.. I think miscommunication like you mentioned can be sorted in 1-2 days
Relative-Sky2139@reddit
I had a 30 minute recruiter call 2 weeks ago I thought went great. Said I'd be moving forward in the process. Never heard back and doesn't respond to emails. Just one example of many. Recruiters suck
CodelinesNL@reddit
This never happened to me. There have been some mishaps but each time people apologised and we set a new date.
Idea-Aggressive@reddit
Lack of empathy. They’re probably in their yoga class. They don’t work much
R4TTY@reddit
I had an interviewer forget to turn up for a remote interview. Recheduled for another day and I got the job.
r1sh1_b13@reddit (OP)
That's great
ZunoJ@reddit
A two year career gap means you are more or less considered a junior again. As shitty as it is but this makes you very low priority
r1sh1_b13@reddit (OP)
Do you think so? I have been pursuing online masters from Georgia Tech during this time.
ZunoJ@reddit
Then no. I wouldn't really call it a career gap, just give it another spin. You had a two year academia career change lol.
r1sh1_b13@reddit (OP)
Thanks for your reply
bloomsday289@reddit
Im a staff engineer. They do that to me... after reaching out to me!
A good recruiter can open doors... but there's certainly also a lot of bad ones.
SigmaSil@reddit
Those who can't, recruit.
qrcode23@reddit
It’s an employer market bro. I had one where I was force to do a 7am call
berndverst@reddit
Happened to me with Meta 3 times over the course of 3 years 🤣. I wasn't seriously considering them anyway though: