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In my experience, maybe just bad luck, but every single company that has given me an offer took a long time to get me a written. The last 2 offers I got it was a solid week (5 business days) between verbal and written. If you think about that, including weekends, that's a long time I had to wait. That leaves a huge grey area for a company to possibly change their mind
To answer my own question - no it hasn't happened to me before, but I am afraid it will with this current opp. To be more specific, I received a verbal offer this morning, was told it would be pending reference checks and to send the him (hiring manager) my references ASAP so he could call them ASAP today. I know I'm using ASAP a lot because he kept saying ASAP himself. He told me if all went well I would expect a written offer by EOD. Well, he never even called any of my references (so obviously no offer), and it has me wondering why he kept telling me to send them to him ASAP when he didn't even make any calls...
I know someone is going to say 'well he probably got caught up in something and just got busy'...seriously pple, he told me ASAP many times, he knows his own afternoon calendar schedule, something just seems a bit odd here
So anyone have any bad experiences? Or is it just the norm to wait forever...
It's just been one day for you, so calm down. Anything could have happened.
Give them at least a few days to process everything. If you don't hear anything by next Tuesday, then send them a email to follow-up on the status of your offer.
Waiting a few hours or even a week is not 'waiting forever'.
I've never seen anyone who was having a panic attack about not hearing back get the job any sooner, so there's no gain in freaking out. All you can do is hope for the best and keep looking. Ruminating about why he didn't call isn't going to help you in any way.
Would you be happier if someone posted, "Why yes, that does seem odd. He probably changed his mind after you left and you're definitely not getting the job"?
I don't think so, yet that does seem to be the answer you're looking for.
In my experience, maybe just bad luck, but every single company that has given me an offer took a long time to get me a written. The last 2 offers I got it was a solid week (5 business days) between verbal and written. If you think about that, including weekends, that's a long time I had to wait. That leaves a huge grey area for a company to possibly change their mind.
5 business days is a pretty quick turn-around considering that most companies run a background check which can easily take 8-10 business days (depending on provider, complexity).
In your current case I find it extremely unlikely that you will go from no reference checks done to a written offer in a single day.
And yes, now that I think about it, I was once offered a job (given a time and day to start) after a phone and in-person interview, to only be contacted 2 days before my start date and told not to come in.
I can't remember what the exact reason was. I think it was because they were delaying the project due to budget problems. I never received a call back though, and I didn't bother to follow back up with them because of the hell they took me through to even land the job (long story).
This has happened to me twice. In both cases, it was because funding didn't come through and the position was cancelled.
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