Job applicant blasts 'Indian recruitment circus' after HR's immediate joining ordeal
The applicant had applied for a role through a job-search and recruitment platform around four weeks ago. Soon, he received a call from a recruiter who said the company required someone who could join within two weeks.
A frustrated job applicant has narrated his ordeal on Reddit, claiming that a company repeatedly insisted on hiring an “immediate joiner” even after missing scheduled interviews and disappearing for weeks without communication.
“I am honestly so done with the recruitment circus in this country,” he wrote in a post shared on r/developersIndia titled, “The absolute audacity of HRs and ‘immediate joiner’ requirements.”
The applicant had applied for a role through a job-search and recruitment platform around four weeks ago. Soon, he received a call from a recruiter who said the company required someone who could join within two weeks.
He informed the recruiter that he was currently serving a 60-day notice period but clarified that it was negotiable because he had a buyout option and accumulated leaves that could be adjusted. The recruiter agreed and scheduled an interview for the following day.
However, the applicant said that the interviewer never showed up despite him taking leave from his current job to prepare.
“Total waste of my leave and time,” he wrote.
The interview was rescheduled for the next day, but the interviewer again failed to attend. “No email, no update, just dead silence,” he added.
The applicant said the company then stopped contacting him for close to a month before the same HR representative reached out again asking whether he could still join within two weeks.
“Are you actually kidding me,” he said, accusing recruiters of having “zero respect for a candidate’s time”.
He also criticised what he described as hypocrisy in corporate hiring practices, pointing out that many companies demanding immediate joiners often enforce notice periods of up to 90 days for their own employees: “So, you want me to teleport into your office in 14 days, but if I want to leave your ‘prestigious’ firm, I have to serve three months?”
The applicant was also of the opinion that candidates mentioning longer notice periods are often ignored during hiring.
The post received several responses from users who said they had experienced similar issues during recruitment.
Several Reddit users suggested publicly naming such companies so that others would not have to go through similar experiences, adding that there should be a directory tracking organisations with hiring “red flags."
For many online, this Reddit post read less like a rant and more like a familiar recruitment ritual.
A frustrated job applicant has narrated his ordeal on Reddit, claiming that a company repeatedly insisted on hiring an “immediate joiner” even after missing scheduled interviews and disappearing for weeks without communication.
“I am honestly so done with the recruitment circus in this country,” he wrote in a post shared on r/developersIndia titled, “The absolute audacity of HRs and ‘immediate joiner’ requirements.”
The applicant had applied for a role through a job-search and recruitment platform around four weeks ago. Soon, he received a call from a recruiter who said the company required someone who could join within two weeks.
He informed the recruiter that he was currently serving a 60-day notice period but clarified that it was negotiable because he had a buyout option and accumulated leaves that could be adjusted. The recruiter agreed and scheduled an interview for the following day.
However, the applicant said that the interviewer never showed up despite him taking leave from his current job to prepare.
“Total waste of my leave and time,” he wrote.
The interview was rescheduled for the next day, but the interviewer again failed to attend. “No email, no update, just dead silence,” he added.
The applicant said the company then stopped contacting him for close to a month before the same HR representative reached out again asking whether he could still join within two weeks.
“Are you actually kidding me,” he said, accusing recruiters of having “zero respect for a candidate’s time”.
He also criticised what he described as hypocrisy in corporate hiring practices, pointing out that many companies demanding immediate joiners often enforce notice periods of up to 90 days for their own employees: “So, you want me to teleport into your office in 14 days, but if I want to leave your ‘prestigious’ firm, I have to serve three months?”
The applicant was also of the opinion that candidates mentioning longer notice periods are often ignored during hiring.
The post received several responses from users who said they had experienced similar issues during recruitment.
Several Reddit users suggested publicly naming such companies so that others would not have to go through similar experiences, adding that there should be a directory tracking organisations with hiring “red flags."
For many online, this Reddit post read less like a rant and more like a familiar recruitment ritual.
