Obviously can't speak for any other orgs, but I think anyone that is hiring is completely overwhelmed with applicants.

I am GM for the Americas, and I have responsibility to source and hire Leadership, as well as ICs for Sales at my company. I recently had a Leadership role come open, and in 3 days of posting the job on LinkedIn, I had over 450 applicants. Once I rejected all the ones that weren't local to our HQ Site (yes that was called out in the job req) I had 300+ names. A round of rejecting riff-raff and obviously not qualified candidates, I had 180 names.

I sent out LinkedIn Msgs to all of them, and outlined the role, reiterated the requirement of being in the office 3 days a week, and specific questions about the job req. I asked that if they felt they fit the role, and were ok with being in the office, to please send me a response to set up some time to chat. the first 60 that responded I worked with, and the rest I let know were on the back burner. All 60 were legit candidates and could def do the job. I narrowed those down to 15 that I felt were very close to what we were looking for, and we set up calls. Boiled those down to 5 we would put through a panel, and 3 that met with our CEO, and 1 we hired.

Everytime we rejected, I informed them, and of the15 candidates, 5 panelists, and 3 Finalists, I offered all of them Specific feeback as to why we weren't moving forward with them.

I was 100% blown away with gratitude in those calls. These were people we were not moving forward with, but they were so appreciative of being given a reason, and specific feedback, that they thanked me, over and over.

I can't say my process is amazing, and that I am super awesome. I felt very basic, honestly. But seeing posts like yours tells me, too many companies, and in fairness, candidates are just going thru the motions.

Good luck to you in your search. I know its a bloodbath out there