While I did have a nice interview process, I am extremely upset by the post-interview experience based off how prior conversations went.
I was reached out to on LinkedIn by a recruiter who suggested my background aligned well with this position and that I should apply. I did, and they very quickly worked to push my application through and I had a call with a recruiter the next day. By the end of that call, we had already scheduled my next interview for the following business day. After that, the recruiter reached out a few days later to let me know they heard incredible things about me from the interviewer and we scheduled my final interview as soon as he was available.
At the end of this final interview, I asked if there were any final thoughts or questions I could answer to help make their decision. They told me I answered everything I needed to, and they would be regrouping with the recruiters and I would hear back VERY soon. Overall, the language from both the recruiter and final interviewer made this sound incredibly promising for me and it almost felt like I was the only candidate based on how quickly I was pushed through the process.
A few days later, I received a rejection email from the generic careers email. Nothing from either recruiter I had been working with. I did reach out to one to ask for feedback or if there was anything they could disclose about why I was not chosen, and I was ghosted.
Overall, the initial process was personable and quick, but a bit unbelievable that after being personally sought out by a recruiter and moving my schedule around to quickly accommodate these fast-moving interviews, I couldn't even get a human response back as to why I didn't receive the position.
In the future, please be extremely careful with the words and phrases you use with candidates to not give them the wrong idea, and please also give some sort of personal touch to the rejection email you have to send to those who made it through the entire interview process.
