I’ve gone through four rounds of interviews with a company, including a take-home assignment, only to be completely ghosted for three weeks. It is incredibly disrespectful to demand hours of free labor and then not even send an automated rejection email. I’m tempted to post the strategy I wrote for them on LinkedIn just to spite them. How do you guys deal with the emotional burnout of job searching these days?

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I just get outside and enjoy some fresh air, show some gratitude for the opportunity and press on. I'm still "under review" in a job portal and was ghosted after 5 rounds of interviews for a life changing role... my last interview was in November with them. I have to believe there's a reason for everything and think positively.

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I went through three rounds of interviews with a company including a day of on site interviews only to be ghosted. Then I saw them re-advertise the post, so I contacted the HR person who was in the face to face interviews directly instead of TA. TA were back in contact with me the same day apologising and say that I didn’t have quite the right experience for them.

I think when companies behave like that it’s a sure sign they aren’t right for you.

Can we connect in some way btw? Doesn’t allow us to send DM here

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Do it! I’ve always wanted to start a reunion or an anonymous platform just expose and roast the headhunters and companies who disrespect candidates like this! They don’t get public shamed enough so they thought they could just do whatever the eff they want.

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