It's been a month since my final interview for a role I'm really excited about. Last week, they checked in asking me to bear with them and making sure I'm still interested, which I am. But I'm starting to question what this delay could mean. I'm happy enough where I am, but I've been mentally preparing to leave. Since it's summer and things move more slowly, how much longer should I realistically give them?

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If you're employed and happy enough where you are you might as well be patient. If you were unemployed and in desperate need of an income, that would be a different story. There could be any number of reasons for the delay, including a summer slowdown or the general uncertainty over the economy.

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Pobody's nerfect. If you've interviewed and haven't had consistent issues with flakiness/long response times, I wouldn't worry about it being a systematic issue. One person in HR could have had backlog to deal with, they might have a robust offer finalization process...honestly the fact they even followed back up to check on you should be indicative of a systematic positive, which is that they respect your time and don't want to leave you in the dark.

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