to think this is shoddy after a job interview?

This 100%

I think your attitude is a bit sour op tbh but i understand why you’re annoyed.

I once did an interview for an internal role and they took weeks to let me know i had the job, and i was their first choice.

My boss does recruiting but she has a whole other role to do including her actual job and managing 4 people. Things can get busy.

There may also be the situation, also common, where they may have offered the job to someone else first, who then may decline it. So you may be next on the list. This has happened in my team before.

I would email today or tomorrow to ask for an update, but please be polite and professional.

Don’t ever send a company ‘your thoughts’ as it will only impact you negatively. Companies talk to eachother.

Was it a job for a time travel company?

My DS got a call at the end of July last year to confirm they wanted to offer him a job and to discuss start dates. The recruiter lady was quite rude when he said he’d found something else having assumed he hadn’t got the job as he was told he’d hear within a day or two of the interview in early March!

It really is a small world. I had a candidate give us a piece of their mind after we took a bit longer than hoped to get back to them, the hiring manager i was supporting was sick and as soon as they came back which would have been when we got our heads together on recruitment we had a major issue with a client. Yea in hindsight I could have sent them a note but dealing with a horrible situation just took our focus.

I moved on to another company and they applied for a role there after a while. No thank you straight in the delete folder you go.

Moved again and was on an interview panel with anonymised applications. I thought i recognised the CV but it had obvs changed so assumed it was coincidence.

Guess who walked in 😂😂 couldn't believe it! Another no thank you 😬

Have you missed all the posts defending employers not contacting potential candidates for weeks, if at all? If you scroll up and read the whole thread you will see there are plenty of them.

I think my personal record is a rejection email 3 years after the interview.

Argh don't do this! You would be surprised at how many businesses know each other and the people within - especially true in some Healthcare sectors. I CONSTANTLY come across people I've worked with in the past, when I go to a new job. Every time. I used to contract, and I can't think of one role where someone from the past DIDN'T pop up.

Even where I work now, been where 5 years, someone's popped up who I worked with 12 years ago.

You will get a reputation as a troublemaker and if it's an industry like mine above, you could find it incredibly hard to ever find work.

Just to be clear - weeks are indefensible. OP is complaining about a DAY!

A few weeks?! Have you ever considered that maybe by that stage they didn’t want the job anymore? I wouldn’t have taken that approach but your approach was worse. You couldn’t have written a 2 min email saying “the recruitment process is delayed” 😳

Exactly

they will have a chuckle amongst themselves and then delete and block

And this is, of course, entirely reasonable. But not what has happened here or what other posters are defending.

Just to add a couple of thoughts. I remember applying for a job some years ago and hadn’t heard back from them when they’d said so called and it turned out I’d got the job. The person I spoke to was clearly annoyed that whoever was supposed to inform me hadn’t. You said it’s a small business so it may people are juggling more than one role. I completely get that you are feeling anxious and annoyed they haven’t followed through with the timeline they advised, but there may be a reason that is other than them being rubbish. Good luck! X

In this specific case, it doesn’t help to tell OP she is right. They said Friday or Monday and if you are raging about not hearing back on Monday afternoon, that’s a bit inexperienced.it hasn’t been weeks! It helps when you’ve been on the other end. Maybe they let the top candidate know Friday, they wanted to think about it over the weekend. Monday comes around, they hear back in the morning and then send the feedback to HR. HR have 5 jobs on the go so they pass it to candidates on the Tuesday. Ok so they should have been more vague on the timescale but maybe the interviewer is also doing it for the first time. If it gets past the week stage it’s rude but OP is not doing herself any favours taking the angry approach….

They will be thinking they dodged a bullet when your email lands.

This happened to me last year in very similar circumstances. Small company, interviewing 4 candidates, I was the last. He actually said to me we were all good and it would be a tough decision. Never heard from him again!! I actually really wanted the job but feel I likely dodged a bullet now as it would have taken 2 minutes to write a rejection email. From what I can tell I'm not actually sure they ended up employing anyone.

I would have no qualms at all about messaging the HR/recruiter and asking for an update. I’ve recruited before and sits total bullshit that you can’t get back to people. Once you’ve chosen your candidate then HR should be notified that they can let the unsuccessful candidates know, it’s standard practice at any decent company. If there isn’t a specific HR manager/department then it comes down to the hiring manager and even then, there’s no excuse for not letting candidates know.

In all of my time interviewing for jobs I’ve only ever been ghosted by one organisation that I had an in person interview for. It’s a legitimate organisation in fancy offices in London and I was completely taken aback that they could so brazenly not have taken the time to send a simple email.

Yup, they'd know they'd dodged a bullet, wouldn't they! Wow!

It took over a week for me to find out if I had got the position I recently applied for and 2 weeks later I'm still waiting for a contract, sometimes it all takes awhile I'm afraid. I understand the waiting is horrible though.

Not in the slightest. Not even a teeny tiny bit of me 😆

Always shocks me how many people work in recruitment departments, or as they now call it, "talent acquisition" and yet NO ONE can write and say "regretfully you were not successful". I have been working since the late 90s and trust me I have had my share of this behaviour!

I have also been made to wait (without being told to, you just get to know when to give them space) and then they sometimes apologise for the delay and tell you that you DID get the job.

Would I bite off my nose to spite my face if they took ages to get back to me but said yes? No. I can't recall ever turning a job down because they were late in telling me I got the job.

Have I ever gone on an interview, knew that I wouldn't enjoy the environment, and then not got the role and been happy about it? For absolute sure.

Yes, I have absolutely had my fair share of being ghosted after interviews, and the worst for this is 3rd party recruiters. They drop you like a hot brick if you don't get the role and never speak to you again.

We absolutely contact the unsuccessful interviewees, and give individual feedback, but only once we have a formal acceptance of the role by one of the candidates! And for the reasons I and others have explained, that can take longer than expected. I tell candidates at the end of the interview when they might expect to hear from us, but not to worry if it takes a bit longer as we have a number of processes to go through, but we will be in touch to let them know one way or the other.

Not unusual unfortunately. A few years ago I went for an entry level, face to face interview. I thought it went well - but no word from the employer. I sent a couple of emails and tried calling - nothing. Then out of the blue, 6 months (!) later I had an email saying I hadn’t been offered the position.

Yup - I am saddened by the servile class deference that seems to be part of our national character - aren't you?

That would be quite foolish when you’re looking for a job. Don’t burn your bridges for some short-term sating of your anger.