In a nutshell: Casper (yes, THAT Casper, the friendly ghost). Things started off great. I applied for this position and received an interview invite within three days, which nowadays is extremely fast (and borderline unheard of) in comparison to other companies' paces. I scheduled the interview for the following week. It was a nice, comfortable video chat with a would-be team member in the operations department. From my perspective everything went great, and at the end of the interview I was told I should hear back from them sometime early in the following week. I follow up promptly with a short and sweet thank you email. The next week rolls around, and I am eagerly waiting to hear some good news. Wednesday arrives with no follow-up from the company, so I reach out with a concise status check email. I receive no reply, and at this point the uncertainty is painful - ultimately I just want to hear something concrete, whether it be good or bad. Another week passes and I debate on whether to reach out one final time, but I decide to let it go and accept the fact that I had been "ghosted." I find it bizarre that this practice is becoming all too common in a professional setting, especially when the amount of effort it takes to reply to an email is so insignificant. It's one thing to receive no response to an application, but it's much more disappointing to receive no feedback after an interview in which you invested time and effort to market yourself as a standout candidate. So overall, the company seemed like a nice place to work on the surface, but if it's that difficult for them to respond to an email (even a ChatGPT response would've sufficed), then I view this as dodging a bullet.