Six Rounds for a Sub-$50k Job — Then Two Months of Silence

A friend of the poster had been through six rounds of interviews for an entry-level role paying under fifty thousand a year. Six rounds, and then two months of nothing — no decision, no rejection, just silence. The poster’s conclusion from it: companies that are not really hiring still fill their recruiters’ calendars, to show that the recruiters are busy, meeting candidates and building networks. Every job they had ever accepted, they noted, had taken three interviews at most. What is a company learning in the sixth round that it did not learn in the first five?