I had four stages of interviews and made it to the final round, which was the fourth stage. That was two weeks ago. I followed up with the recruiter and was told the hiring manager and most of the team are on leave. He’s been pretty responsive though and also apologised for the delay. Do you think this is a bad sign?

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They're "on leave"? What does that mean? That seems like a red flag to me for sure. Does he mean vacation? If it was over the 4th maybe that makes sense, but if the team is all on leave, that doesn't sound like a good situation.

It could be a red flag, but it truly could just be an issue of semantics. For example, I am prior military, and tend to use "leave" in place of "vacation," because that's what it was called. I would suggest asking for more details before giving up on something that you were interested in enough to sit through four rounds of interviews.

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Hard to tell, but I would keep applying in the meantime

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