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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018) by bogomipz on Thursday February 01, 2018 @02:59PM (#16285308)
Time waste alert!

I was asked to complete a take home project. I completed and submitted the take home project which took a few hours.

I then received nothing more than "canned email rejection." Completely disrespectful.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018) by meesterdude on Thursday February 01, 2018 @10:11PM (#16288104)
thanks for this! We should hold companies to some degree of accountability in interviews.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018) by throwaway55356 on Friday February 02, 2018 @12:54PM (#16292529)
I think that you are right, it is great that companies are getting interview reviews on the monthly thread, especially companies that treat candidates poorly. HN is still a relatively small community, so we must all use justifiable words and beware of cognitive biases. For example, I interviewed with the company we are replying to here, and I thought that I was treated fairly. They even looked into bending a hiring policy for me.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018) by bogomipz on Friday February 02, 2018 @01:05PM (#16292620)
>"HN is a relatively small community, and should use justifiable words, and beware of cognitive biases and unfairly ganging up."

Providing feedback is most certainly not "unfairly ganging up" . Common courtesy is just that - a common widely accepted norm. It's pretty much the antithesis of a personal "cognitive bias."