Ghosting job applicants is weird

It’s so strange and upsetting to me to see companies that completely ghost candidates after just the first step of submitting an application. I don’t mean later in the process (which is also painful and common), I mean the application is received by the company and the candidate doesn’t get as much as an automated email when they’re rejected at that stage. Just complete silence, like the candidate never existed.

Such a weird, unfriendly way to treat candidates who took time and put forth effort to submit.