My husband had a first-round interview with an internal recruiter, which went really great! After 2 business days, she scheduled him for the next round with two higher level directors (one who I believe is the hiring manager). The interview went really well. My husband was asking great questions that segued into the questions they already had, and they even expressed how much they enjoyed the conversational feel/ all his questions instead of just questioning him the entire time. They ended the interview telling him to contact the internal recruiter (from the first round) if he had anymore questions so they could have someone from the team get answers to him, and then they told him the recruiter would "be in touch with further steps." Not "next steps," which I found to be an interesting change in semantics.

Anyway, he emailed the recruiter after the interview asking her to pass along his gratitude and message to the hiring managers (emails not listed in their video link), and she responded later that day to…