Waiting to hear from interview - feeling deflated!

Sorry to hear that but pick yourself up and get back out there - it wasn't meant to be.

Good luck OP, I hope it comes through for you.
They should let you know ASAP,its not fair to keep people in limbo.
Fingers crossed for tomorrow.
I think sometimes if you come second they hold off saying anything until the first person has accepted or declined.
I have been offered a job before after first candidate didn't work out and I was number two on the list.
Anyway good luck and keep looking the right job for you will be out there even if its not this one.

I've spoken to the lead recruiter about the interviews we did last week. They're not even making a final decision until tomorrow so will probably be in touch with candidates on Wednesday. It's good to take time to reflect as a recruiter. It's not a definite thing until you hear either way. My latest job I was second place but the first one didn't work out. The right thing will come but it often takes time.

Hold on OP 🙂 my company takes at least 2 weeks to get back to people and it winds me up as I am sure we lose good candidates due to the time lag. Fingers crossed for you 💐

‘early next week’ could be anything up to Wednesday.

Don’t lose hope just yet, it really is early days.

I came away from a second interview where there was a very, very strong hint that I was going to get the role. I had to wait 10 days for a response. The hiring manager went on holiday for a week and asked the Talent Lead to make the offer, but he then ended up going off sick. I start next Monday.

Is it public or private sector?

'Early next week' doesn't have to mean Monday though, does it?

This happened to me recently 2 weeks ago I went to a interview it was looking very positive told me would get a call back next. Day they didn't contact me so know I've been unsuccessful unfortunately like you I needed the job badly op but sadly wasn't meant to be good luck in your future interviews

Start some new applications to stop you over thinking this one. Enjoy.

No! Don’t email til the Friday. Be cool like you’ve got another offer already - go and do something to take your mind off

Fair enough. I'm saying as a recruiter chasing early is a red flag for me. It's up to op if they want to take the chance though.

OP wants to contact them Monday afternoon so I was giving a more realistic time scale. I don’t think a polite follow up on the Tuesday would do any harm though.

Don't contact them on Tuesday morning. They said early next week. I interviewed on Wednesday and due to sickness from the panel since we haven't met to finalise our decision. Luckily we gave ourselves a week's grace. Anyone who chases before this will be getting short shrift.

Having been on the other side of the table many times, I would just forget about it for now and contact them midweek next week if you haven't heard anything back (definitely not on Monday or Tuesday).

The rest of their roles won't have stopped because they've been interviewing - the panel may not have had time to meet to deliberate yet and may have scheduled that meeting for Monday or Tuesday.

It's easy to assume they'll have told the successful candidate on Friday and will tell unsuccessful on Monday but it's usually not that simple.

However, I've been on your side of things many times too and it sucks waiting.

No don’t contact them it’ll make you look pushy, there’s no positive for the future employer there with you contacting them

They haven’t gotten back to you later than you have been told though, nothing is wrong here OP. Sometimes people are just busy on a Friday! Good luck for next week OP. Personally I’d wait until Tuesday morning to email

My husband was on an interview panel on a Friday and they interviewed all day, at 4pm they had made their decision on who had got the job. Husband said to HR lady she could phone the candidate and tell her she got the job and she said it was late and she was going home and she would do it on Monday. My husband was annoyed at that. Hopefully you will get good news next week

They've given you a timescale they're still within. As a recruiter candidates who chase before the deadline I tell them put me off. It implies they'd be hard to manage as they don't listen.

When I got my current job they came back to me over a week later than they said they would. I thought I hadn't got it.

I've never known the recruitment process be as quick as hoped, from either side of it, and I have learned never to believe it if I'm told, "we'll let you know by the end of the week." I've been interviewing candidates recently, and I say to them, "we will let you know as soon as we can, but any decisions have to go through HR and so on, so I can't tell you how quickly it will happen."

I might know someone is the strongest candidate as they leave, as we use a scorecard system and use the same questions for every candidate for a role, but all I can do is recommend to HR and more senior management that I think they're the one we should hire.