That&#x27;s a good point.  I usually avoid recruiters since I think they had noise to the process and don&#x27;t really add any value, but in this case they would have helped.<p>But they probably would have done what I did, pinged the companies to know what was going on.  They may have done it sooner and not waited like I did, but the companies probably wouldn&#x27;t have spontaneously provided the information.