#Burning bridges by declining further interviews?

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mystic steeple
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I am currently in the process of applying to 6 software companies. With some of them, I feel like I have to decline after one to three interviews. Am I burning any bridges by doing this? Would this be remembered amongst recruiters as bad behavior due to the amount of interviews ? Reasons are usually company size or office travel distance. All companies were interested in further talks with me, so it's a delicate situation to be upfront and declining...

naive wedge
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declining interviews is not a big deal at all

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i do it all the time

mystic steeple
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I see

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Yeah I'm not concerned about how, but rather the quantity

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Then again it's a big tech hub around me and I'm also applying nationwide

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I guess I'm just a bit concerned about ending up in some internal or recruiter register as the guy who declines a lot, heh

naive wedge
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just like in real life, no one thinks about you as much as you think

near oxide
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As someone who often sits on the hiring side of the table I wouldn't care. Even if you came back a year later having changed your mind and applied again.

People have different needs at different stages of their career and you owe loyalty to nobody but yourself.