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Follow up with recruiter or interviewer

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asdfghjkl

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Last week, the Friday before last Friday, I had an onsite interview for a tech internship (current college junior) which lasted 4 hours with 4 different interviewers. After I finished the onsite, I didn't realize that it was customary to followup, and I kind of regret not doing that now. This is my first onsite interview ever. I had an internship last summer, but I was given the offer after 2 phone screens and never followed up after the interviews. But anyways, at the lunch after the interviews were over, the recruiter eating with us told us that we should hear back about our decision within a week, either a rejection or offer, so by last Friday 3 days ago supposedly. However, no news as of right now. I just learned over the weekend the etiquettes of send a thankyou note right after an interview but of course, now is over a week after it passed. The thing is, none of the 4 interviewers gave me their contact info, although the recruiter did casually mention that everyone at the company, in general, have their email in the format firstname.lastname@<companyname>.com. I was hesistant in contacting them because they never gave me their emails and my first instinct was that they'll wonder how I got their email if I email them. So now I have a few questions:

1. Who should I contact now to inquire the status of my application? The recruiter or the 4 interviewers?
2. How much do you think I hurt my chances by failing to send a thankyou note, especially if the interviewer never gave out their contact info?
3. In the future, when I send a thank you note, should it go to the recruiter or the interviewers?

Thank you!
 
typically when working with a recruiter, you want all communication outside of the phone/onsite interviews to go through the recruiter. i'd ask the recruiter to find out for you, or if they think it's okay for direct contact, ask them for the contact information. i would not recommend going directly to them without first talking to the recruiter about it.

in a sense, it would be possible for you to get an offer outside of the recruiter helping out, which would screw over the recruiter because he would not get his cut. it's completely unethical for this to happen in general, but that is why you want to go through the recruiter.

i had been in contact with a company that is 2500 miles away starting a month ago. after talking with the CTO he had someone interview me on the phone a week later. after that i had another interview a week later. that was 3 thursdays ago.

last friday i sent a followup email to the CTO just to say hey what's going on. i still have not heard anything back, but i didn't hesitate to do it or think anything wrong about it.
 
asdfghjkl said:
Last week, the Friday before last Friday, I had an onsite interview for a tech internship (current college junior) which lasted 4 hours with 4 different interviewers. After I finished the onsite, I didn't realize that it was customary to followup, and I kind of regret not doing that now. This is my first onsite interview ever. I had an internship last summer, but I was given the offer after 2 phone screens and never followed up after the interviews. But anyways, at the lunch after the interviews were over, the recruiter eating with us told us that we should hear back about our decision within a week, either a rejection or offer, so by last Friday 3 days ago supposedly. However, no news as of right now. I just learned over the weekend the etiquettes of send a thankyou note right after an interview but of course, now is over a week after it passed. The thing is, none of the 4 interviewers gave me their contact info, although the recruiter did casually mention that everyone at the company, in general, have their email in the format firstname.lastname@<companyname>.com. I was hesistant in contacting them because they never gave me their emails and my first instinct was that they'll wonder how I got their email if I email them. So now I have a few questions:

1. Who should I contact now to inquire the status of my application? The recruiter or the 4 interviewers?
2. How much do you think I hurt my chances by failing to send a thankyou note, especially if the interviewer never gave out their contact info?
3. In the future, when I send a thank you note, should it go to the recruiter or the interviewers?

Thank you!
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A thank you note or lack thereof will make no difference whatsoever in the hiring decision. Just always go under the working assumption that you aren't getting hired unless/until you get an actual job offer. It's ironic how much companies tie themselves in knots with the recruiting process when experience shows it's basically completely random whether a hire works out or not. But they'll agonize over filling that single $30k/year job for months and months as if all the interviews and other irrelevant decision making tools they use make a damn bit of difference in the end.
 
In the future, ask the interviewers for their business card. I can't imagine someone not giving you one, unless there are unusual circumstances. That way you have their contact information.

If you didn't ask any of the interviewers for an okay to follow-up with them, stick with the recruiter for status updates. Usually the hiring manager will tell you about following up (or not). The reality is that you do not always receive a rejection phone call or letter. People get busy.

Not sending out a thank you note is not a fail. Most people do not. But a hand written note is a very nice touch. It is probably something few people do these days, with the electronic communications being the norm. I did send a hand written thank you note, prior to my last hire. Though it was a match of my experience to the job requirements, that got me hired. If you send thank you notes, they should be sent in the order of priority, the hiring manager, others you interviewed with and then the recruiter. Keep it short and simple.

[edit] I was thinking of an internal recruiter. If you went through an external recruiter, your communication should be there, unless advised otherwise.
 
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glenn1 said:
A thank you note or lack thereof will make no difference whatsoever in the hiring decision. Just always go under the working assumption that you aren't getting hired unless/until you get an actual job offer.
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True that, out of all candidates I interviewed, either you are qualified/fit for the team or not. Never care for the Thank you notes.
 
Yes at my fortune 100 company, your eligibility is scored as follows:

25% application/qualifications
25% interview
25% quiz if you can remember your interviewer's first and last names and title
25% follow through
 
That has to be the worst grading system I have ever seen. Is it a joke? That kind of nonsense has to have been dreamed up by HR. Why in the world would a company place equal weight on an applicant's qualifications and their ability to remember their interviewer's name and title?
I interviewed with five people for my last position and only remembered two of their first names (HR contact and direct manager) afterwards. But after orientation I wrote down all of my coworker's names and committed them to memory. Some people don't have excellent immediate recall for names, but that doesn't mean they aren't capable of learning, or an excellent potential hire.
 
The company not responding to you by last Friday is a perfect opportunity for you to call the recruiter and ask what's up.

Maybe they got busy. Maybe they hated you. Maybe they wrote down the wrong phone number. Maybe they're waiting for you to call!
 
FleshLight said:
Yes at my fortune 100 company, your eligibility is scored as follows:

25% application/qualifications
25% interview
25% quiz if you can remember your interviewer's first and last names and title
25% follow through
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Hahahahahahahahahaha
 
FleshLight said:
Yes at my fortune 100 company, your eligibility is scored as follows:

25% application/qualifications
25% interview
25% quiz if you can remember your interviewer's first and last names and title
25% follow through
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So somebody with a good resume can completely fuck up the interview, and as long as they remember a name and follow up they're just as well off as somebody who interviews great, and just didn't follow up after the fact? Why?
 
FleshLight said:
Yes at my fortune 100 company, your eligibility is scored as follows:

25% application/qualifications
25% interview
25% quiz if you can remember your interviewer's first and last names and title
25% follow through
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There you go OP, this shows you some of the random and arbitrary nature of hiring practices out there. The stark reality of hiring most places is that the hiring manager decides in the first 90 seconds of the interview if they'll hire you, and depending on that decision all the rest of the corporate guidance is either moot or flexible to accommodate their choice. Just keep putting in applications and interviewing until you get and accept a job offer. Then once you start that job, update your resume and start periodically seeing what other opportunities are there for your next move.
 
If they don't respond, just email them 'fuck you and fuck your company' i am very pissed of how unprofessional recruiters are. They can go suck lemons.
 
You probably didn't get the job. I'd wait until they reach out if you want to not piss off the recruiter and have the opportunity to use them again.
 
asdfghjkl said:
I emailed the recruiter 24 hrs ago and no response yet. How long should I wait before I call her?
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tell them to fuck off if they don't reply to you. I hate recruiters like this. So many I lost count I literally phone them and told them how rude and unprofessional they are, they stfu and told me x y z. Seriously fuck them. Things I hate in this word are recruiters.

im mad because waiting for phone calls can fuk up your day. wow my F count is insanely high here. like i said just phone them and tell them how angry you are, YOU HAVE TO. they treat you like plebs.

Typed on phone.
 
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