Increasingly becoming the norm across a lot of industries. Reprehensible behaviour.... hardly unexpected though, considering the type of person who normally works in HR.Not hearing back from an interview!
Job I successfully applied for just before Christmas still hasn't started, due to their HR department taking five weeks to check two references. The best bit so far being an email from HR to me asking me to chase the responses. I contact both referees: one has already returned the reference, the other was never contacted to provide one. Outstanding.