I work in Big4. I had selected an amazing candidate. Everything went smoothly, even the HR was satisfied as the guy was asking for a raise that was fitting our budget. For the final approval, the profile was sent to the Line of Service partner, who was out on holiday, and we were strictly told NOT TO ASK FOR UPDATE FROM THE PARTNER so we could not even send mails to him requesting him for an update on the profile. Since he was out on holiday for more than 15 days, the candidate got auto-rejected by the system because there was no feedback within that time. The partner came back from the holiday, saw the expired profiles (a total of 12 candidates) and asked us why we didn’t call him or email him, but everyone knows nobody emails the partner for an update.