[jedberg]

> first company policy would be to tell the candidates to tell why they were not hired in a polite way.

And your lawyers would strongly advocate against that.

In most cases they can't/won't tell you because it could open up legal liability. If they say a reason for you, but then hire someone else to whom that reason also applies and you find out, you could sue them. Or you could find a way to twist it into something against a protected class. Too many ways for the company to get screwed.

That's why they all say "we've decided to go another way" or something equally generic.

[yuhong]

This is part of why I dislike employment anti-discrimination laws. They probably worked better for manual labor jobs. Of course, there is also firing where the laws vary by state. I think CA is one of the most strict, right?