Everyone’s Getting Ghosted
<p>The company I interviewed for was up and coming, YC funded, now profitable, a well-known player in the generative AI space. I was excited for the opportunity. They have many in-house recruiting resources and a policy to <strong>not</strong> ghost candidates. Yet, I got ghosted. I’m not alone in this, and we’re going to investigate why this happens.</p>
<p><strong>Ghosting</strong> is a term that refers to asynchronous communication that is abruptly cut off by one party. The term is typically used in dating, but works well for tech recruiting too. In order for it to be ghosting, the ghosted party has to expect the conversation will continue. This means that if you apply and never hear back from a job, that’s not ghosting, a conversation never started. It only becomes ghosting when there is an expected next step that never happens.</p>
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<p>Once ghosted, do we become ghosts? Source: Dall-E</p>
<p>The effect of getting ghosted for me, and likely others, is impactful. The narrative in my head played out like this: “was I really so bad that they wouldn’t even tell me no?” It was also a chilling effect for my projects that involved generative AI. I didn’t want to work on them. Every time I logged into my Github, I was reminded of the company because I still had a fork of the take home assignment. It took about a month for my project work to feel normal again, but I shelved some of my LLM projects and moved on. The fire of disappointment had smoldered into an ember of resentment.</p>
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