Four rounds of interviews over two weeks with nothing but excellent post-interview feedback and got rejected out of nowhere with no actual feedback. This is the farthest I've gotten in 6 months of looking to get out of my current dead end only to be shot down just because reasons after being told everything went great. What a kick in the junk.

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In all the years I've been doing this I've never seen the hiring process so brutal and unforgiving.

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True. And then when you get the offer, they run a background check for 2-4 weeks. It's toughest I have seen so far.

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I'm so sorry this happened. I too had this happen, five interviews, the last two were panels of 4 people each. Only to receive a generic rejection email a week later.

In my opinion when candidates have gotten this far, the employer is being absolutely disrespectful by not providing some sort of direct communication other than a generic email.

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I would appreciate that if they refuse you they give some kind of explanation as to why. It might have been something that could have been explained by the prospect and they didn't ask the right questions

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Had some of my best interviews everything's flowing, no awkwardness seems great.

Get feedback that I was great and everyone liked me, only to be told they won't be moving forward.

See position still open on the company site a month later. 🤷‍♂️

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Yeah that has happened to me a couple times lately I thought about applying to the position again but clearly someone high up above the interviewers is likely to nix it. It sucks that IF you get a response at all its the most generic we are not moving forward with your application.

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Honestly, I think candidates should get paid if a hiring process drags past three interviews. At that point, it’s eating into your personal time, and there’s no reason a leadership team can’t make a decision by the third round. When I was running hiring cycles, I kept it to one or two interviews max. That’s also why I’m such a fan of panel interviews — you get input from a diverse group all at once, and you can make a solid decision without putting candidates through a long string of interviews that ultimately go nowhere.

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Sorry to hear this bad news but unfortunately it happens quite frequently. They usually don’t tell you why but if you did so great it sounds like they decided to go with an internal candidate. It’s shameful for employers to interview external candidates when they almost always go with the internal one.

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Mine has a lot to do with age. It has a lot to do with the fact I had to take care of my father-in-law for about two or three years and not be able to work, even though I put it on my résumé of the gap of employment they’re not very very count at all about it so I understand what you’re saying

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I’m an AI consultant/integration/automation with 10 years experience I I went through 3 rounds of interviews, all the feedback was excellent I was told they really liked me and want to move forward. (All of this through a recruiter) to then be asked to do an assessment of which my job title would’ve been head of AI that I’m not allowed to use AI in the assessment. Kind of counter productive if you ask me. To not get the job because I said £85k minimum after seeing the job spec and the offer was for £55k as they don’t really understand what it is I’d do once in the company and all managers said they don’t want email or teams integration in the workflows as it would be possible for me to see what’s been said to each other, and that they don’t think they’d be able to control me enough to just do what they wanted in the company.

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