Title: HI HN!<p>TL:DR - When did poor communication etiquette become normalized in American corporate culture?<p>I re-entered the job market several months ago after not needing to touch my resume since 2008 (see last submission) and my experience has been nothing short of brutally sobering.  My age (40s) and experience (20+ years in IT) was definitely helpful in keeping me resilient through the process, and I&#x27;m extremely fortunate to have landed a senior IT leadership role that I love.<p>BUT I have come away from this entire ordeal a touch jaded and syndical towards much corporate America and how people are treated within the job search process (almost all other job seekers I spoke to had very similar experiences) . These are several key takeaways from my job hunt that I wanted to get some feedback&#x2F;input from the HN community on potentially why this is happening and why it seems to be so prevalent across so many companies today:<p>1. Of the 13 staff-level (not recruiters) virtual interviews I had where no job offer was given, 9 of them that moved onto second interviews, 4 to third, I only received follow-up &quot;dear john&quot; communication from 2 of them.  Ironically these were both from first-round interview companies.  Is it normal practice to ghost applicants at the staff-level interview process?  In brutal self reflection I even recorded several of the interviews and shared them with friends in senior leadership positions to ask for coaching advice and the feedback was overwhelmingly positive.<p>2. Communications, especially logistical planning for interviews, was at times borderline comical.  This is not hyperbole when I say that more often than not I would need to write follow-up emails after an email communication would go unresponded to for over a week, sometimes longer, sometimes not at all.<p>3. I have, as of today, well over 30 ATL optimized applications still sitting in &quot;applications purgatory&quot; with many large fortune 500 companies.  Most of these applications are from 3-4 months ago.  The fact that these companies have no automated purge&#x2F;rejection process seems bizarre to me.<p>Help me out HN.  How does your company handle communication etiquette?  Am I out of touch to be expecting email replies to relevant, time sensitive information within days, not weeks?  Why is ghosting tolerated, or is it normal now and I&#x27;m just expecting too much from this new generation?
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