I applied to a software maintenance position in the first week of December last year, had two Zoom interviews that seemed to go very well, and then didn't hear from them over the holidays.
I figured, sure, they're in Utah, they probably take Christmas very seriously.
But they didn't get back to me in January, either – I thought they'd just hired somebody else and kind of shrugged.
January 31, about midnight, I hear back from them, that they've filled the position, thanks for my time. I asked what I could have done differently; I haven't actually looked for work for a very long time and figured I could probably write a resume better, maybe something that sounded like it wasn't written by a Cro-Magnon, you know?
Turns out they'd trial-ghosted me. Said they didn't hire me because I hadn't followed up. That I didn't show hustle.
My brothers in Christ, it's a maintenance position for legacy Perl code. You don't want a hustler, you want somebody who cares about doing solid, quiet work. Good luck in your further endeavors.
I think I dodged a significant bullet.