This is going to be half just a rant and half WWYD...
On Friday I had a second interview for an amazing job. It's the kind of thing where similar opportunities are like gold dust, and they will have had hundreds of applicants I'm sure.
I had to do a lot of work for this interview (preparing a presentation, getting two references submitted ahead of time) and I traveled for several hours at my own expense to get to it as it wasn't local.
After the interview they said they were hoping to make a decision very quickly and that they'd be in touch by the end of that day (Friday) or Monday at the latest.
It's now Wednesday and I'd still heard nothing. So I had a peak at the company on Twitter and found some other guy's tweet about how he'd been offered the job. The tweet was from Friday evening. And yes, it's definitely the same job and there was definitely only one spot.
I'm actually not devastated to have (apparently) not got the job, as I felt some doubts creeping in after the interview for various reasons. But I'm beyond pissed off that a) they've clearly offered it to someone else and haven't bothered to contact those who weren't successful, and b) that this guy thinks it's appropriate to go blabbing publicly about this on Twitter, before the company has told all of the rejected candidates.
Due to the nature of my industry I'm bound to cross paths with these people again at some point, but I'm dying to email and say something like 'I gather from Twitter that you have now offered the position to another candidate, it was lovely to meet you, please let me know if you have any feedback on my interview' (obviously I'd phrase it better than that!)
Is that a horrible idea? I just hate the idea of them carrying on in total radio silence on the matter when I (and presumably other candidates) put SO much into this process!