As a candidate I've been ghosted by many many HRs even after showing salary breakup. I do not know why they just don't send an email saying "position is filled"

This matters because in India we have notice periods that are 2 to 3 months by default so it is difficult to get the first offer letter.

When I was looking for a change and decided to decline offers, I wrote to the HRs much before my joining date as I didn't want to be like the bad HRs I had faced.

> When I was looking for a change and decided to decline offers, I wrote to the HRs much before my joining date as I didn't want to be like the bad HRs I had faced.

By "decline offer" you mean, when it was offered or after accepting it?

After accepting and before accepting.

I had very low salary so I had to get multiple offers because for some reason no company gives acc to their payscale, they count pennies like a miser and give only 30%

However, when I landed an offer at a non service company, I stopped interview processes as I was ok with comp & with the company work & culture.

I cancelled 4 ongoing interviews and immediately wrote to my 2 other companies whose offers I had that I got a better offer.

The ongoing interviews' HR said he'd give better salary but I was satisfied so I declined it.

The article talks about potential employees ghosting hiring managers, but the last anecdote in the article screams poor and abusive working conditions. I mean, when a company has a very hard time finding applicants, the ones they offer a job outright reject them, and after a couple of rounds the ones they manage to actually hire stop showing up at all on their third day of work, how exactly is this spun into an issue with employees?

You won't believe the attitude a certain MNC had in India.

In pandemic they gave 0 hike and increased notice period to 6 months etc and still scores resigned.

And then suddenly the top HR had an unceremonious exit and policies improved a LOT

Maybe the "go get a job and sacrifice your whole life to it" mentality from the 1950s has finally shaken out of the system. Maybe the rise of the gig economy has made workers realize, hey, wait a minute, I have VALUE to the company, I don't have to act like a serf.

I have definitely seen a combination of the various things in this article as a hiring manager.