# goodbye, interview.

Issue №042 — £4,900 Median engineer-time cost of a single 7-round loop, per candidate, at UK senior rates — paid in full whether anyone gets hired or not.

## Latest stories

- **[TRUE STORY] [Eight Rounds. One Month of Silence. Then Ghosted.](https://www.goodbyeinterview.com/stories/eight-rounds-one-email.md)**
  Seven rounds. A month of silence. An eighth round for a new hiring manager. Then the company simply stopped replying.
  — Senior software engineer · SaaS sector · via r/recruitinghell

- **[TRUE STORY] [No-Show. No Apology. No Second Chance.](https://www.goodbyeinterview.com/stories/no-show-no-apology.md)**
  Recruiter no-showed the first call and arrived eight minutes late to the second. The candidate hung up and walked.
  — Tech leadership professional · via r/recruitinghell

- **[TRUE STORY] [Six Rounds. Four Hours of Unpaid Work. One Fatal Question.](https://www.goodbyeinterview.com/stories/six-rounds-one-fatal-question.md)**
  Six rounds, a four-hour unpaid assessment, and two months of "you're the top choice." Then he asked about work-life balance.
  — Operations professional · via r/recruitinghell

- **[TRUE STORY] [2,000 Kilometres. One Flight. Zero Replies.](https://www.goodbyeinterview.com/stories/two-thousand-kilometres-silence.md)**
  A Bengaluru startup asked a candidate to fly 2,000 km for a final interview and promised reimbursement. Then they vanished.
  — Entry-level candidate · via r/IndianWorkplace

- **[WIN] [The Recruiter Who Fired the Client](https://www.goodbyeinterview.com/stories/recruiter-fired-the-client.md)**
  A recruiter admitted candidates ghosting is 'fair play' — then their firm fired a client with a broken hiring process. Morale skyrocketed.
  — Recruiter at a boutique firm · via r/recruiting

- **[SATIRE] [INTEROFFICE MEMO: Re: The Hogwarts PhD Resume Incident](https://www.goodbyeinterview.com/stories/memo-re-hogwarts-phd-incident.md)**
  Cromulent AI issues new resume review protocols after a candidate claiming a Hogwarts PhD and fluency in Telepathic Debugging received five interview invitations in one day.
  — The Satire Desk · inspired by a post on r/recruitinghell

- **[TRUE STORY] [Nine rounds. Eleven weeks. One auto-reply.](https://www.goodbyeinterview.com/stories/nine-rounds-eleven-weeks.md)**
  The fintech called the role urgent — then ran nine rounds across eleven weeks before ghosting.
  — Senior platform engineer · UK fintech, Series C · company on file

- **[TRUE STORY] [Take-home asked for "production-ready microservice, ~4 hours." Repo shows 31 hours of commits.](https://www.goodbyeinterview.com/stories/takehome-31-hours.md)**
  Take-home labelled 4 hours. Actual commit history: 31 hours.

- **[TRUE STORY] [Candidate rejected for "lack of React depth" by a panel using the docs site he maintains.](https://www.goodbyeinterview.com/stories/rejected-by-own-docs.md)**
  Panel rejects candidate for lack of React depth — using the docs site he maintains.

- **[TRUE STORY] [Recruiter reschedules final round for the fourth time, asks candidate to "stay flexible."](https://www.goodbyeinterview.com/stories/fourth-reschedule.md)**
  Four reschedules, one request to "stay flexible." Candidate withdrew.