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Note: I've applied to this opportunity before. Did not receive a response. Funny to see it posted again...

Maybe they are looking for something different than "PHP, JavaScript, CSS, and SQL"? Hard to say...

Yeah, I've applied there to without any sort of response. My impression was that they either are looking for something more specific than they let on here, or that they have a high turn over rate. Not necessarily bad things, but they might narrow down their employee search by providing more details

Neither's the case. We want what we say... but we're picky, and wind up passing on a lot of applicants. It's a multi-step process, and we prefer to err on the side of passing people up, so there's lots of opportunities for perfectly qualified people to not get hired.

One downside is that we get enough resumes coming in that we don't tend to respond to someone who's rejected at the resume-evaluation stage.

Yeah but you should still at least respond to people. I mean, why not? It's a win-win. Candidates at least find out and you look good by showing you care enough to get back to them.

It's called having some common courtesy. Companies such as yours that think it's beneath them to spend the 10 seconds to respond back to people is a huge redflag that they're filled with arrogant pricks.

Unfortunately this courtesy is anything but common in my experience, it's not the exception. Hell, I've had companies and recruiters disappear after showing initial interest, e.g. after the phone screening stage. Call me a cynic but these days I'm pleasantly surprised when I receive even a negative reply.

I would love for someone to put together a weekend project where people can anonymously list where they apply and if they ever got a response.

Welcome to the club. Mostly. I applied for that as well. At least I got a (negative) response but I think it was automated. I'm not sure what they're actually looking for, maybe we're not "artsy" enough or something...

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