Ask HN: Why do companies ghost right after requesting to schedule an interview?

[treyfitty]

First time was with Apple just before the New Year. At first, I was paranoid and thought Apple was reading my texts or reviewing my device service logs to determine if I was a good fit immediately after requesting to schedule a time to chat, but over the course of 2 months, it's happened 2 more times.

It's always "hey! thanks for applying! To kick off the interview process, we want to schedule a time for you to chat with the hiring manager! What times will you be available?" After I reply with a few timeslots, I don't hear back from them. Is there some sort of new-age algorithm that tries to detect if a potential candidate is "passionate" in his reply or something? I just don't understand.

[LinuxBender]

I would not take it personal or as a reflection of your actions. Often times recruiters will get approval from a manager to move forward on a batch of people. People are interviewed usually back-to-back based on peoples schedules. If they find enough people to fill the role and use up all the FTE/contractor slots they had available, then the remaining people would be thanked for applying as a courtesy. They will always schedule more people than they have slots for in the event that some of the candidates turned out to not be a perfect fit.

[uberman]

This says it better than my answer so I'll delete mine.

[kleer001]

Think of it this way "You just dodged a bullet. Any company that would do that you wouldn't want to work for."

It may not be entirely and literally true, but it's certainly metaphorically true and good to run with.

[muzani]

I think a lot of recruiters just drop the ball a lot, especially those in very large company. I imagine they get 10 applications an hour, sift through some resumes, schedule some interviews, then find someone and ignore the other 33 people who have scheduled an interview.

[treyfitty]

It’s sad to see (and experience)... it’s the corporate equivalent of leaving someone on “Read” and while technology has improved our lives via ease of communication, at the same time, it has made it easier to have bad or no conversations.

[kelt]

I experienced this as well with Twilio. I believe its bad luck or probably like what LinuxBender said.