Are recruiters (headhunters) just glorified gatekeepers?

How common is it for recruiters to ghost you after multiple rounds of interviews and assessments (over months) by blocking your email so you can't even send follow up emails? The way I see it - they don't lose much since they have thousands to choose from an applicant pool, but it certainly undermines the effort made my candidates to a huge degree. Or is that common courtesy, acknowledgement and in general being decent human seem rathee utopian concepts in this day and age? Wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

So recently I interviewed in many companies including google, Microsoft, Amazon I have seen common pattern that HR not being transparent with candidates. They keep hanging candidates in between and not reply to text, email, messages, calls. Even if candidate is rejected why can’t they email or call to give feedback. Is this job really hard ? “If I will get a chance to snap out one profession from earth I will snap out all hrs, recruiters out there.” Ps:- Google ppl was very transparent throughout process one of best experiences for me .

Now it has become clearly evident that there are telegram groups for off campus placements. Almost all students cheat when it comes to OAs. Also asking easy level problems in interview many times help the cheaters get selected on any interview. The real question is what are recruiters doing? Do they not care much about these? Now in my college the culture has become such like everyone knows if they don't cheat they won't be selected in OA. It is disheartening to see that this thing is not always checked during interview and many underserving people seep in the company because of poor interview process( they ask leetcode hard/codeforces 1600 level questions in OA and will ask to reverse a linked list in interview). Is this system ever going to change?

Need answer to just one thing. Do you guys intentionally ghost candidates or do you guys intentionally ghost candidates? 🙂

I got call from hr that I have passed coding round and they need to schedule interview round 15th may was the date decided, I started studying for interview and took 1-2 leaves from my office of that now I didn't get any mail, I asked again for interview confirmation, he said he has requested for interview to 16 may timeslot, I will get mail by EOD Now I haven't got any mail for timing, why they can't simply clarify things and keep us waiting now neither I am focusing on studying nor I am focusing on my current company work 😕

Why is that? Do they choose sending rejections via email as an easy way out - cause of the volume? Is hiding behind emails WAYYYYY easier? Is the basic mindset that .. anyways X is/ are rejected, why waste time there? Isn't that mindset toxic and weird at the same time. I mean - if you can pick up the phone to string a potential hire along, push them through the process, you can sure as hell pick up the phone to be honest. Isn't that a valid expectation from the other party? Your convenience is a proxy for avoiding hard conversation. Cowardice at its best. Ignorant at its core. No wonder 9/10 Recruiters don't get Recruitment - no matter what you say. Cause you (recruiters) default to transactions. And if you (recruiters/ anyone in the org) are wondering - but no one complained about it? Sad truth is - They (candidates/ job seekers) screamed their lungs out, but you never listened. And now most of them have accepted this as a norm. This is what is killing Recruitment. Candidates deserve better. But they stopped asking. You can do better. But you stopped trying. IMHO The best you can do is - give them a closure. Not an automated email. Oh! before I forget .. To all those Hiring Managers who say - HR/TA will get back to you. You ain't any better. Period. Effort without honesty is just a facade - Recruitment needs both to regain its integrity.

So i approached a PM at klub, a revenue based financing firm & asked him about open positions. He forwarded my cv to the hr. Couple of days later, the hr called me & we had an initial discussion. Then he scheduled an intro round with a PM. I had the PM round which was completely behavioral. It seemed like he was not much interested in the interview & took it just for the sake of it. Questions like tell me about yourself, why klub, why PM were asked. 2 weeks later i called the hr(yes, there were no responses from them) & asked him whats the status to which he replied, we have proceeded with another candidate. *Here comes the interesting part* I asked him to provide me a reason because i didnt get any feedback from the PM. This is the conversation which happened He: we are looking for pm with experience in api integrations only Me: okay so why was that not mentioned in the JD He: the requirement was changed later & also you dont have the experience required(1-3 yrs) Me: so why did you contact me in the 1st place if you thought i didnt have enough experience? Also, there are 2 guys who are working at klub who are from consulting background & have no experience whatsoever but they're apm He: but you need to understand that they are from tier 1 college, bits pilani & iit madras Me: how does that make a difference in product experience? I have worked on & built real products even if its for 10 months, all they have are hypothetical case studies, its not like they have been entrepreneur at past He: no we have specific requirements & the hiring manager didn't see yours as a fit Hr will hire people with no experience but from a premium college than people with experience but from a not so known college

P.S. Not GenZ, but relate to vibe as a concept I've interviewed with multiple companies, and I'm starting to notice a pattern. Interviewers who: - Have their cameras off - Show up in old t-shirts, looking like they haven't washed their face or combed their hair - Roll their eyes when the answer isn't what they wanted to hear - Fidget around when you are speaking - Look anywhere but at the camera - Give in to itches all over the body 👀 among many others If we as interviewees are expected to be presentable and excited, the least interviewers could do is put in a little effort to appear decent and engaged.

I was talking to one of the Navi recruiters and she became uninterested once I told her I was recently impacted by the layoff and can join within a few weeks. I mean it's funny how they don't want to interview immediate joiners who are impacted by the restructuring. I'm surprised as other company recruiter eyes lit up knowing I can join immediately but navi finds it disgusting.