Lindsey KuperI just talked to a PhD student who had a scheduled faculty interview at a US R1 CS department two weeks from now, but not anymore: the position has been cancelled due to budget constraints. It's one thing to not be hiring this year -- but they actually opened a search, reviewed applications, invited folks for interviews, and *then* cancelled the position? A bunch of people's time just got wasted on both sides, to say nothing of the heartbreak of getting an interview and then having it cancelled.
(Not one of my own students. And I'm not gonna say what department it was, though I know some of you will know. I assume this was a decision that came down from above, and that they're just as unhappy about it as the candidate is.)
Great year to be on the job market, huh?
Loris D'Antoni@lindsey sadly this happens a lot more often than people think. I can think of at least 4 cases in the last 12 years in which this happened to people I personally know
chris martens@lorisdanto @lindsey wow really?? i feel very out of touch learning this, i’ve never heard of it happening
@chrisamaphone @lorisdanto yeah, I've never known it to happen in my nearly 8 years in this job
Petey P. Twelve@chrisamaphone @lorisdanto @lindsey it happened to me during my search ~11 years ago, although the school in question was a SLAC -- the fact that an R1 is doing this tells you something about the state of funding in higher ed.
@lindsey @chrisamaphone one specific place I know of didn't cancel interviews. They interviewed everyone anyway and then told people during the interview that there really wasn't a job anymore
@lorisdanto @chrisamaphone what in tarnation
@lindsey @chrisamaphone I think in that case it was the right thing to do, but I don't want to go into details over here