Has an employer ever handled your application so badly you decided not to work for them?

[ThatArtfulCoralFinch]

I’ve been applying for jobs recently, and some of these employers don’t half mess things up. I take this to say a lot about what they might be like to work for. Have you ever had an employer mess you about so much during the application process - being disorganised, uncommunicative, or even disrespectful - that it completely turned you off the idea of working for them?

Did you write them off as a potential employer, or did you give them a chance anyway?

I was offered a job at an investment management company but the offer was lower than my last role. This role was advertised up to £20k more than what I was asking for. During salary negotiations their recruiter was so rude and told me I was very lucky to get an offer from them so I tried my luck elsewhere.

Several years later another company had verbally offered me the role after 4 rounds of interviews. They asked me to go to their office to meet their CEO and join their team drinks the next week, then nothing. After being ghosted for weeks I found they went with another candidate. A few months later things didn’t work out with their chosen candidate and the company reached out to see if I was still interested in the role. At this point I’d already found a job so I just ghosted them right back.

The same NHS that cannot get enough staff? That one?
Insane!

I bet they might have been wild had you joined and they could have let their hair down. In an alternate universe you would be posting on the drunken Christmas party thread with examples of their antics

They offered me the job, brought me in for induction and training, then re-advertised it and offered to someone else. I was livid

Not me, but a friend of mine received the letter detailing his interview date the day after the day of the interview.

Which was bad enough, I guess, but to worsen the situation he was applying for a job as a postman.He felt it might have been a sign.

I interviewed for a job, didn't get it, but was told I was the second choice candidate. It was an internal job. A few months later, a very similar job came up in the same team. I applied and was unsuccessful. They then readvertised the job, but it was slightly different so I assumed it was a different role and not the previous job. I applied again and was shortlisted. I was the only person interviewed. I didn't get it. It was so horribly embarrassing.

Forgot to add, the second time I interviewed they told me again I was the second choice candidate. This made being the only person interviewed the third time for an a pretty much identical job and not getting it pretty awful.