I've heard of interviewees ghosting a company after accepting a position. It's pretty despicable in my book. On the other hand, I've had a couple of clients tell me that they have been ghosted by the company that they interviewed with. They went on a few interviews, received very favorable feedback, were told that they would be hearing from them with the next week to two weeks and then nothing. My clients did the right things; wrote the thank you notes, thanked the recruiter and then nothing but a month of radio silence.
The client wrote a follow up note at the one month mark and then I gave him a sample note to send as a final query. While my client is very disappointed, I said that I'm not sure that a company that pulls this is the kind of company he wants to work for. He agreed and has moved on.
In my book, this annoying habit of major corporations never responding after such positive interviews is low. I don't think they realize that their tactics are a punch in the gut to the interviewee.
