The guy is getting roasted in the comments too, especially about being unfair to NDs

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    2 months ago

    No, you can’t expect someone to be responsive at any random time out of the blue. Every phone interview I’ve had was first scheduled via text or email.

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      2 months ago

      Yes, you can expect someone who applied for the job to pick up the phone if you ring few times at different times.

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        2 months ago

        No one is available 24/7, it is not reasonable to expect them to be. If you need to be absolutely sure that someone will definitely be available at a given time, you schedule it.

        Or, you leave a goddamn message like a reasonable person. You know that voicemail was invented for a reason, right?

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          2 months ago

          No one is available 24/7

          I don’t believe he was called at midnight. It is called “office hours” and you are expected to pick up.

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            2 months ago

            Not everyone keeps the same “office hours”. In fact, I’ll bet that what you call “office hours” is when I’m busy with my current job and thus cannot pick up. You don’t know my schedule, you can’t just make assumptions and then get upset when it turns out I may have other engagements. You might even be calling at a time when I already had something else explicitly scheduled!

            It is called voice mail. You are expected to leave one.

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              2 months ago

              In fact, I’ll bet that what you call “office hours” is when I’m busy with my current job and thus cannot pick up

              These were intern applications.

              I agree that he should have left a message or send a quick email after he didn’t reach them on the phone. I strongly disagree that phone call should have been “scheduled”.

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                2 months ago

                Scheduling is how you can be certain that the person will be available at the scheduled time. If you don’t schedule, then you don’t know if they will be available, and so you have no grounds to get mad at them for not being available.

                Every phone interview I’ve had was scheduled.

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                  2 months ago

                  Phone call is the quickest and the most straightforward mean of communication. Assertion that these have to be “scheduled” is ridiculous.

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                    2 months ago

                    If you don’t schedule, then you can’t guarantee they’ll be available.

                    Every phone interview I’ve had was scheduled.