Ask HN: Do your companies reply to rejected candidates?
One surprising aspect has been that some companies' recruiting departments have been non-communicative after the interview. Like, no reply, even after I've sent a reminder/check-up email (I'll wait a bit more than a week before sending such an email).
What's going on here? Is it actually a thing for companies to not reply to rejected candidates? That seems really rude. Again, I'm not talking about cases where I blindly sent in a resume; this is after one or more technical rounds.
Maybe candidates just slip through the cracks? Still, it seems bizarre that a recruiter wouldn't take 10 seconds to send a generic rejection email after their engineers have taken multiple hours of their time to interview me.
To be clear: I'm not trying to complain (too much); my job search has been successful. I'm just trying to figure out if this is standard practice, what it means, and how to react in the future when it happens.