Re:Reasons Why Job Seekers Are Not Given Feedback
by thinnerlizzy on Friday December 20, 2019 @12:21AM
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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.
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