Ghosting
The most common failure in recruitment is also the cheapest to fix. One email closes it. That email is still not sent, and the reason is not politeness or volume.
#no-feedback
4 stories
Ten hours for a four-hour task, then nothing
Told it would take about four hours. It took ten, across two days. Then two weeks of the silence they'd asked him to wait through — and more after that.
The company that said it pays candidates, and didn't
Fifteen-odd requirements sold as a couple of hours, which took days — from an employer that had publicly stated it pays for every stage regardless of outcome.
He capped it at two hours, as instructed
The brief said spend no more than two hours. He spent two hours, flagged what he'd left out, and was rejected for leaving it out.