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by warent
2178 days ago
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This might be what you'd think intuitively. I've conducted ~500 technical interviews, and in my experience candidates who are obvious DNP (do not pursue) often times really do not want your feedback or do not care about it, either because they think they're smarter than the whole process, or they're too busy turning inward to deal with an emotional breakdown. But those very candidates are the ones who are likely to leave the feedback! tl;dr candidates are happy to give feedback whether or not you provide any yourself. EDIT: I agree with you though. An interviewer should be ready and willing to provide feedback if the candidate signals that it would be welcome. |
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And at which point would this happen, I wonder? All the interviews I went through during the last 4 months didn't have one person sound inviting along the lines of "we won't take you but if you think we can improve our process do let us know". Not one even hinted at that. It's all very... impersonal, cold and often feels like copy-pasted emails are being to sent to the candidate.
You are kind of assuming -- way too generously -- that the process and the interviewers are actually open to feedback. Most people, including in tech companies, are happy to tick boxes and check in / check out at given times of the day, and do nothing else more creative or requiring special attention (like recruiting).
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EDIT: I tried giving feedback -- unsolicited -- after the rejection in my first 5-6 interviews. Didn't go well. You could tell people got offended by very simple points like "would have helped if you told me you will measure me with one extremely specific test while I am looking for a generalist role" or "what was the value of imposing a hard deadline on a homework while the candidate is going through several interview processes in parallel? does that tell you anything about their real productivity?", and a few others like "I am not sure that teling me 'I am not like the others in the team' is a valid point in remote working conditions where comms are mostly async and people don't chat that much". Etc.
In the end you get tired hitting a brick wall. People are generally not receptive to feedback and even react in a hostile fashion when it is given to them. Plus when you want to go through 35-50 interviews, at some point you really start counting the hours that each company is taking away from you before rejection and you figure it's not worth it to try and present feedback where it's clearly not wanted.