I had written an original interview review about not hearing back after making it to the final round of TWO separate panels; I was pretty peeved by this but was still pretty interested in the NYT as a company and figured maybe this was a one time situation thing on their end and recently applied to a few more roles a few months after that incident happened. Well... The same recruiter who originally ghosted me about completing the final rounds for two different roles reached out to me about a month ago and we had actually quite a pleasant conversation about a few different roles I had applied to, the kind of role I was interested in doing, etc. At the end of the call he asked me to send over my availability for the following week to speak to the hiring manager for a specific role. I did, and would you guess it, I NEVER HEARD BACK. If you didn't see me being a fit, I would've much rather appreciated you telling me that on the phone and there are obviously professional ways to say that. Honesty is the best policy. Also no acknowledgement of our prior contact only a few short months before or any reason why I never heard back, pretty awkward but ok. You should probably do better as a recruiter, or just not be one at all if you can't communicate with people in the slightest. Last week a completely different recruiter reached out to me about a different role and I scheduled a 20 minute phone screen with her, emailed her back and let her know what time I selected. This morning, the phone screen rolled around and... drumroll.... no call, no show, no email. What an absolute joke of recruiting. Honestly, don't even waste your time trying to interview with the New York Times. They clearly don't respect candidates time or schedule.