I interviewed for a Demand Generation role and had a first-round conversation with the hiring manager and one stakeholder. The discussion felt engaging — we had rapport and I addressed the company’s key challenges around positioning workflow automation and cybersecurity.
However, after the interviews I experienced multiple weeks of silence, despite follow up emails from my end, followed by a generic rejection email mentioning they had selected a candidate with “better experience", while offering specific feedback as to why they chose a different candidate, in case I was interested in hearing that. I took them up on their offer and requested feedback - twice now -with no response. The role has been reposted several times since, and remains open months after I first submitted my application.
Poor communication and no follow-up in the later stages
Complete ghosting on feedback requests after they offered feedback reflects badly on the company.
Ghosting candidates and then reposting the same role also reflects poorly on the hiring process.