That’s very suprising to me; I have given interviews at Google and Apple and they really drilled into my head that giving any feedback about performance was left to the recruiter, and any response no matter how germane it sounded could open up the company to lawsuits. That kind of answer was exactly what we were told we could not give.

I think when companies give feedback it is a recruiter or HR person doing it, and they are more aware of what could be lawsuit bait. I think companies want to avoid having engineers give the feedback, but are ok having HR do it.

When I interviewed at Clearbit I got more or less the same response for probably more or less the same reason.

The only thing I didn’t like about it is that the requirements never said they were looking for ‘simple solution’.

Ah well.