I was asked to provide three references within four days of my in-person interview. These references were contacted immediately with a request for answers to open-ended questions. This puts a burden on the references and to not hear anything back is quite disrespectful. My understanding is that reaching out to all three references is more of a last step, background check. To ask so much information from them and then for me as the applicant to have to keep asking you about my application status was absurd. I've never experienced communication from a company like this before.
