There is a sort of a trade-off to notifying people immediately or notifying them after a couple of days. My best guess is that it generally won’t make a difference for someone’s planning to be rejected from a job application in less than 24 hours or to be rejected within a few days. But there is probably a lot of variation in preferences from one person to another; maybe I am impacted by this more than average. I’m probably heavily influences by a typical mind fallacy here as well, as I am very sloppily generalizing from my own internal state.
I’ve had a few job applications that I submitted and then got rejected for an hour or two later, and emotionally that felt so much worse. But at the end of the day I think you are right that “your mileage may vary.”
There is a sort of a trade-off to notifying people immediately or notifying them after a couple of days. My best guess is that it generally won’t make a difference for someone’s planning to be rejected from a job application in less than 24 hours or to be rejected within a few days. But there is probably a lot of variation in preferences from one person to another; maybe I am impacted by this more than average. I’m probably heavily influences by a typical mind fallacy here as well, as I am very sloppily generalizing from my own internal state.
I’ve had a few job applications that I submitted and then got rejected for an hour or two later, and emotionally that felt so much worse. But at the end of the day I think you are right that “your mileage may vary.”