RIP Robert Gottlieb, the egg carton bat signal, against job interview follow-up messages, turtle crossings, a call for help identifying hi fi components
Does the need for interview follow up letters come from the fact that most companies do a terrible job of letting candidates know where they are in the process? In the old days, you'd do an interview and in exactly 14 days, you'd get that thin envelope in the mail that you knew was a form letter rejection. That was impersonal but gave a form of closure. Today, it's much more common to just be ghosted. I think if more companies would set clear expectations and follow up (even with automated form letters), candidates would not feel the need to check in so much.
As for typos, I often don't care, but if someone says they were a "Principle Engineer" instead of a "Principal Engineer", I judge them horribly. But I've still worked with some great engineers who get that wrong, so clearly I'm kind of a dick there.
Does the need for interview follow up letters come from the fact that most companies do a terrible job of letting candidates know where they are in the process? In the old days, you'd do an interview and in exactly 14 days, you'd get that thin envelope in the mail that you knew was a form letter rejection. That was impersonal but gave a form of closure. Today, it's much more common to just be ghosted. I think if more companies would set clear expectations and follow up (even with automated form letters), candidates would not feel the need to check in so much.
As for typos, I often don't care, but if someone says they were a "Principle Engineer" instead of a "Principal Engineer", I judge them horribly. But I've still worked with some great engineers who get that wrong, so clearly I'm kind of a dick there.