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Yeah, I'm ambivalent about that. From a purely theoretical standpoint, sure, bad actors should be punished. There's also slim but non-zero chance that they'll reciprocate and attempt to harm my reputation, and we'd end up in some dumb internecine conflict. It's good for bad actors to be punished, but usually irrational to be the one doing the punishing.

Can you come back in a year and share?

I don't think I've ever told anyone about a good interview experience, but I certainly have talked about a few bad ones.

I appreciate whenever I see people in your position get angry about ghosting, but in my experience, for positions that I’ve interviewed for and didn’t get, I think only one ever let me know.

I’ve come to rationalize this as a risk-avoidance tactic, and I think the negative effects of reputations damage to the company are mostly unaccounted for.