Not just them. Aha! is also notorious for this. Even recent startups like Jam.dev do this.
Unfortunately a lot of companies use Who's Hiring as a way of keeping mind share / advertising. But they are not doing well so they can't actually hire you.
Unfortunately a lot of companies use Who's Hiring as a way of keeping mind share / advertising. But they are not doing well so they can't actually hire you.
Especially after the last two years with hundreds of thousands of laid off devs, companies are probably flooded with applications.
It's nice when they have a form letter, even nicer when a real person takes the time to reject you, but I wouldn't expect either as a matter of course.
Would that number be 90%?
Also 54 is not a lot. Consider responding to all candidates at your scale which is still very tiny.
Github gets a much larger number of applications (1000s) and they still respond with a lot more details about why they reject people.
I work with a lot of mentorship and coaching of young tech folks and this can drastically improve how people think of you.
That's been sadly common even before the "seller's" market took a nosedive. It's to the point where I don't consider it "ghosting" despite understanding others who call it that. I just feel you need to exist before you can "ghost", and many jobs may as well not exist.
But hearing a 90% rate from a pool of 60 applicants is still a bit depressing.
I was just hired at Jam through the HN post a couple of months ago, so it’s definitely not fake.