Recruiter reached out to me and I had a good chat with an engineer @ Splunk. I was invited on-site and performed 5 hours of interviewing with several different engineers from different teams. The actual interview was fine, engineers seemed friendly and interested in what the company was doing. Overall I think we had good conversations. This is where the positives stop. Before I interviewed at Splunk I read on Glassdoor about the recruiters just not responding after an on-site. This came across as a pretty big flaw in character for the company if it was true so I took the reviews with some doubt. How can a large company like this act so poorly with candidates? I've also asked colleagues around the Bay Area that have interviewed @ Splunk and they recited the same story. Ghosted by the recruiter after the on-site. These engineers moved onto obtain positions at Google, Apple and Facebook. Well, its true. After the on-site, there no communication at all. Splunk feels you don't deserve any further correspondence whatsoever. Dead, nothing, nada. You no longer exist. And candidates will definitely notice since the days/weeks leading to said interview the recruiter will be in contact constantly. Splunk.. candidates are taking their time off, most of the time taking PTO days to perform several rounds of interview with your company. They are preparing and sacrificing other opportunity costs to engage with your organization. Even though Splunk doesn't respect it, a candidate views their own time as extremely valuable and they have chosen to spend it with you. To just cut a candidate off with a cold shoulder and no further communication is not only extremely unprofessional but also disrespectful. I takes 10 seconds to send the email. I'll give you a free template: "Dear candidate, we are choosing not to continue with your candidacy at this time." See how easy that was? Now the candidate can move on with their search. Did I get the job? Who knows, I'm guessing likely not since I'll take the cold shoulder as a rejection. However since I do have choices and options in the Bay Area of where to work at, I likely now won't take a position here anyways. Splunk has proven they don't respect people and thats a culture that isn't for me.