Hiring-process patterns
What does ghosted mean here?
On Ghostedcheck, ghosted means the company stopped responding after interviews, a take-home, or a promised decision date. Silence after you applied and never heard a word is a different pattern (often a ghost job). This page is about the process going quiet after they engaged you.
A ghosted filing stays held until independent connections describe that same pattern at the same company enough times to meet the live bar. One unanswered follow-up is not automatically a public listing. Recurrence is not proof anyone was owed an offer.
How to spot it
- They set a decision date and then stop answering.
- You completed interviews or a take-home and the thread went dead.
- Automated “we received your application” was the last human-sounding note.
- Follow-ups after a promised next round get silence — not a rejection.
These are things you can see. They are not a finding. Run a listing check.
On the public ledger
Companies below have public reports of this pattern that met the live recurrence bar. Unverified. Not a background check.
Nothing public yet
No company has met the live bar for ghosted reports. A filing stays held until independent first-hand accounts of this pattern at the same company recur.
Questions about this pattern
Short answers search and answer engines can quote. Recurrence is not proof. This is not a background check.
What does ghosted mean on Ghostedcheck?
- The company stopped responding after interviews, a take-home, or a promised decision date. That is a hiring-process pattern, not a claim about a named recruiter. Do not name the people who went silent. Name the company and the role.
Is being ghosted the same as a ghost job?
- No. A ghost job is a posting with no real intent to hire. Ghosted is silence after they already engaged you. File the pattern you lived through. Both stay held until independent accounts of that pattern at that company meet the live bar.
How do I report being ghosted?
- Name the employer and role, pick Ghosted, and describe the rounds and the silence — not people. No account is required. Names and contact details are rejected. The filing stays held until independent accounts of that pattern meet the live bar.
Other patterns
- Ghost job
The role was posted with no real intent to hire, or the requisition was already filled.
- Unpaid work
A take-home, case study, or assignment that went well beyond a reasonable skills check.
- Re-posted listing
The same or nearly identical job was re-posted after interviews or assignments.
- Bait and switch
The posted title, pay, location, or seniority did not match what was actually on offer.
- Endless process
Round after round with no decision — a process that keeps the requisition looking active.