To send a snotty email

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Last week I was interviewed for a job. I was interviewed by three person panel. I travelled 300 miles for the interview. It didn't go terribly well and they said they'd get back to me in a couple of days. As the interview ended two panel members smirked knowingly at each other and I pretty much figured out that it was a big fat 'no'

Heard nothing. And don't expect to, the job starts in a week.

Am highly tempted to email one of these folk pointing out their massive lack of courtesy and snarky rudeness at the time of the interview.

I know lots of folk never get a response after interview. Bit shitty to treat people so shoddily though.

I'd just like to vent my spleen at such a high handed shitty action.

It will not affect any future job applications.

I wouldn't. I know you've said it won't affect any future job applications but you never know and I don't think it is worth the risk.

Why don't you email them and ask for feedback?

I wouldnt.
You could politely ask for feedback.

And how do you actually know what the look between them meant? It could easily have been "thats all interviews done, thank fuck" or "great, time for lunch" and nothing to do with your performance at all.
Much more likely to have been about something they were talking about before you came in, and that could even have been "this one looks good on paper".

I did consider that but thought if they couldn't be arsed to email a 'no' they were unlikely to bother writing feedback.

It is rude to say they'd get back to you and not do so. But best just vent here - people do move companies, you can never tell who will crop up where in future.

I think employers quite often don't say no to people until the person they offer it to has signed the contract etc. especially if they are the back up choice - a week really isn't that long.

I think I assumed it was a snarky thing because I performed excruciatingly badly during the interview. It was also done during the moment when another panel member said they would get back to me in 'a couple of days'

This job is in a totally different field to the one I am currently in. Unlikely I will ever apply for anything similar, given this experience b

Ask for feedback but don't write a snotty email. You never know when you'll come across these people again and the last thing you need is for your reputation to be ruined.

When you say 'it didn't go terribly well' was that down to their lack of preparation/clarity on the advert/understanding of the role or down to your interview technique or similar? Could you be misinterpreting the 'smirk'? It sounds like it was just a frustrating experience all round, so probably best left alone rather than stirring it all up again.

I would write a letter and then delete it before sending. It does help.

Wow, things moved on quickly while I was typing. Still think I'd leave it alone though and just chalk it up to experience.

My powers of thought and speech deserted me. I wouldn't have employed me.

But I don't think it warranted snarkiness or not bothering to let me know.

To he honest, I've reached a stage in my life where I just begin to think 'screw it, I'm gonna say it'. Tragically I suspect it'd just come across as sour grapes.

I shall leave it, my karma intact.

I think it is so rude of companies not to tell people one way or another. It takes a huge amount of effort and sometimes expense (travel, loss of earnings, maybe new clothes etc) to attend interveiws and is very stressful. The very least they can do is send a polite "thanks but no thanks" email. It's not as if it actually takes long to do. If I were you I'd feel lucky, these people didn't give a very good impression of the company did they?!

I think you're right though.....you have nothing to gain but maybe something to lose by retalliating. Totally understand why you want to though. I don't think it'd be bad karma though, I think karma is a load of crap to be honest! I do think though that it's not worth the bother.

I had something similar with one company. They interviewed me but never let me know I was unsuccessful. I kept emailing them just to be annoying I could see that they were reading the emails and just being bloody rude.

I'm not sure what would be achieved by sending such an email. If I was on the interview panel and received an email like that it would just confirm my decision that you were not the right person for the job and think "I knew she was underprepared, inexperienced and uncommunicative". Then I'd bin it.

I don't actually think that it would make you feel any better either!