Ask HN: Technical interviews went amazing but HR is not answering my emails now?

Big company's HR departments seem to drop the ball a lot. Here is the thing though: You Won't Be Working For HR.

Would you recommend against the college you went to because of the admissions departments poor performance?

Would you turn down a 2nd date because the restaurant you met at had poor service?

[start rant] People (in general) need to decouple the interview process from the act of working at the company. The interview process is broken. It doesn't mean the company is. Sure they ask stupid or even insulting questions. Get over it and "study for the test" if that is what it takes.

If your find a company you want to work at, you may have to jump through their little hoops. Remember: the interview is a 2 way street - you need to interview the company to see if you want to work there. If you don't pass their insulting "linked list" test you're sunk before you start.

Recognize that not every company is going to be optimized to immediately see how "special" you are. You may have to "hack" around, or work though, their broken system to get where you want to go. [end rant]

In this case, it sounds like the OP is probably trying to get a job at nVidia. That's a very large, public, multinational corporation with thousands of employees. I would expect nothing less than ruthless efficiency from their HR group, including not wasting time sending thanks-but-no-thanks letters to people they don't want a relationship with. There's nothing in it for them.

I'm not sure I agree with your analogy that HR and the rest of the company (as opposed to the small group of people you'd be working closely with) is analogous to the restaurant. You're actually going to have a relationship with the entire company while you're working there - in other words, I think it's more like you're dating the company.

That rude HR person who couldn't be bothered to answer a simple question? They're the one you'll be going to when you have problems with your health insurance or direct deposit.

And that arrogant manager from another group who interviewed you? They might end up being promoted to being your boss's boss in a couple of months.

HR and the rest of the company report to the same CEO as developers do. If the CEO doesn't care about making HR treat job candidates respectfully, it could be an indication that they don't spend a lot of time caring about how employees are treated either.

So if you reject the company because you were treated badly during an interview, it would be more like turning down a second date because your date, while very attractive, was an hour late, made insulting remarks about your choice of clothes and spent all of dinner playing with their phone instead of talking with you.