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by warent 2177 days ago
Sorry to hear about your experiences. It sounds frustrating.

I think there's some miscommunication happening here. The line you quoted is specifically regarding the person conducting the interview looking for signals to provide feedback to the person being interviewed, not the other way around.

I would not recommend providing feedback to your interviewer unless they explicitly ask for it. It's likely to just become a clash of egos, and if the company is larger then it's likely the interviewer doesn't even have much power over the process anyway. If you're being interviewed and hate their process and/or the way they communicate, the best thing you can do is politely inform them it is not a good fit, remove them from your list, and move on.

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Oops, I guess I misread indeed. And you are quite right on your last paragraph -- found it the hard way.

I also agree that the interviewer shouldn't just give feedback without asking because I know many interviewees will react badly.

It's just that in my case no feedback was wanted in either direction. And job-hunting is a game of numbers and evolution (okay, most of the time, definitely not always): you seek to adapt to the current conditions and see what you can improve upon for the next interview. Some feedback would have made your time and effort worth it. Giving you zero feedback wastes your time entirely though.

I don't think you should give them feedback directly, instead post it to glass door where all the people who do care will look. And it helps me out :D
Sure, I'd love to help future applicants but 99% of the companies aren't even on Glassdoor. :(