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Re:Reasons Why Job Seekers Are Not Given Feedback by zebnyc on Thursday December 19, 2019 @11:22PM (#21841697)
As an interviewee, I would love companies to provide some transparency and feedback. The feedback doesn't have to be super detailed, just areas for improvement. This was something which I really appreciated about Facebook. I interviewed onsite a year back and later the recruiter told me "You did well in all the coding interviews but we felt that you did not display the level of competency required in System design for a senior role". That was actionable feedback IMHO and I would not hesitate to interview again.

The flip side is I hate interviewing for companies which ghost / refuse to provide feedback, especially when they give you a take home test / assignment where you don't even know a) Whether a human / engineer saw your submission b) What is the criteria being used for evaulation (especially for working solutions). The worst offender has to be Slack (though Twilio/Amazon is right up there) where they make you create a slack bot which does something trivial (play tic-tac-toe). Wasted a bunch of time to read the documentation and get a basic bot working before I got to actually work on the problem (tic tac toe). My submission was rejected and I was given no feedback / reason why

Re:Reasons Why Job Seekers Are Not Given Feedback by thinnerlizzy on Friday December 20, 2019 @12:21AM (#21841892)
I had a rejection from Facebook a few months ago and I got no feedback like that. The feedback I got was that I did extremely well throughout the interview process and demonstrated that I was qualified for that type of position. It was just a no for some reason. Unfortunately it’s a rare position and they haven’t called me back with other opportunities.