Gary Meyer didn’t intend to become a ghostbuster. But his website, Did They Ghost You, has become an outlet for thousands of frustrated job seekers who have been ghosted by employers.
Based on anonymous reports — 2,888 at last count — the site tracks and ranks the companies that are most often accused of abruptly ceasing contact with candidates, including some of the biggest names in the S&P 500.
Ghosting is a widespread issue. A recent report from hiring platform Greenhouse found that 45% of job seekers who made it to the interview stage of a hiring process said they were ghosted by an employer afterward, based on a survey of 1,200 U.S. candidates conducted in September 2026.
Meyer, 42, an artificial intelligence-focused marketing consultant who lives in Toronto, created Did They Ghost You in June after listening to his friends vent about interviewing with companies and then never hearing back.
He never intended for the website to be more than a “fun little side project,” but when he shared a link to his site on LinkedIn, the reports started pouring in. He says that within the first few days, the site received more than two million visitors: “Clearly, it struck a bit of a nerve.”
How he tracks ‘ghosting’
Meyer, who reads and approves each report himself, says he fielded five or six new submissions every minute at the height of the site’s popularity over the summer. To protect people’s identities, Meyer typically doesn’t publish the contents of the report, and his site doesn’t track personal information. Each report contributes to an overall tally of ghosting incidents.
“Was told that I was the preferred candidate by the Director of HR in a debrief immediately following the final interview and then just didn’t hear back,” one report featured on the site said.
“Ghosted, then reposted their ad a week later,” said another.
Meyer’s definition of being ghosted by an employer doesn’t include applying for a job and never hearing back — unfortunately, “that’s part and parcel” of the job market today, he says.
His website is for people who make it through several steps of the hiring process and then never hear from the company again.
“These are people who have gone through multiple rounds of interviews, met with people, flown to various states or cities for the interview and then right at the end, just nothing, no response, nothing,” he says.
Part of the reason he created the site is to let those job seekers know they’re not alone, he says.
“I think a huge part of what makes it hurt so much when you get ghosted is the assumption is that you’ve screwed up so badly that you’re not worth responding to, that you’re not even worth an email,” he says.
Why ghosting happens
It’s easy for job seekers to blame themselves when they get ghosted, according to career coach Phoebe Gavin, but it’s really a failure on the company’s part to practice “basic etiquette” in the hiring process.
“The hiring process requires a great deal of unpaid labor from candidates, and it is a reasonable expectation that you will receive some sort of communication, that you will be treated with some sort of dignity,” she says.
Although it doesn’t excuse their actions, there are a few common reasons that a company might ghost a candidate, Gavin says.
Especially at small companies, managers are often tasked with supervising the hiring process on top of their regular duties. While juggling all those responsibilities, it’s easy for a candidate to get “lost in the shuffle,” she says.
Another possibility is that there could be some behind-the-scenes factors that the hiring manager can’t share with an external candidate, like a budget cut, hiring freeze or leadership turnover, Gavin says.
Still, “candidates deserve to hear from hiring managers regardless,” she says.
Meyer says he doesn’t intend to turn Did They Ghost You into the next Glassdoor. The site’s popularity “got a little bit overwhelming,” he says, and he currently has a backlog of reports to read and approve.
He plans to keep running the website, but “the best case scenario is that this problem gets fixed, and there’s no point in having the site anymore.”
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