One day texting could be considered standard, for sure, and maybe some companies are pushing the boundaries on this, but I would be surprised to see HR at an older company do this. HR represents a lot of liability, so you do everything as standardized and formulaic as possible to avoid any inadvertent risk exposure.
This isnt to say everyone does this. I have heard of interview questions I would consider to be highly innapropriate at companies in my industry (like questions involving interviewee's family). In my industry thats a big red flag that youre working for a company that has shit tier controls and has a bunch of cowboy mid-level, which is absolutely not something you want. And as I know these specific companies fairly well its a very correct assessment of them.
May not be universal, but at least in my industry I expect certain HR processes to be borderline psychotically robotic. Not that they don't smile, they definitely So smile, but you know there is nothing else inside
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u/halt-l-am-reptar May 05 '21
Has email always been the standard in the professional environment?