Job interviews are stressful enough as they are. Not only is your entire professional life being judged, but you also have to make sure to leave a positive impression, all the while you go through the many (many, many!) application stages. It’s exhausting.
And even though rejection is hardly ever a nice thing, there are better and worse ways to go about it. The least you can do is tell applicants that they didn’t pass, instead of ghosting them after multiple rounds of interviews. Redditor u/thegr8_alexander recently went viral on the Recruiter Hell subreddit after sharing how they pushed back at a company they were applying to after getting “radio silence.” All it took was disabling access to their take-home assignment.
You’ll find the full story, including how the internet reacted to it, below. Bored Panda has reached out to the author via Reddit for further comment about recruiter malpractices, and we’ll update the article once we hear back from them.
