Three rounds over two weeks. Initial recruiter screen first. A hiring manager interview a couple of days later. Final round with two project managers, one in the UK and one in the US. Around 3 hours of my time across the process.
Things moved quickly until the final round, then stopped completely. Repeated follow-ups with the recruiter went ignored for one month. The only reply I ever received came within 30 minutes of escalating to the head of HR. That timing tells you everything. The silence was deliberate, applied as the default until forced from above. The excuse that eventually came didn't match what was publicly visible during the same period.
The pattern is structural. Candidates are treated as useful inputs while the process is running, and dropped without closure the moment that process ends. The recruiter doing the dropping is incidental. The system around them allows and rewards it. If a company can't close the loop with people it's trying to hire, that says something about how it treats its staff more broadly. This isn't the only review flagging their hiring practices. Similar issues have persisted since my experience.
