[karaterobot]

I don't care whether I'm being ghosted or not. When I was applying for jobs, all I wanted was feedback about why I wasn't being hired.

Applying for jobs is a black box: you do a bunch of work, something happens, and you have no idea why, so you have no way to improve.

I wanted someone to say "you misspelled something in your cover letter", or "you were standoffish in the interview", or "there were several qualified candidates, we hired the one with the most experience", or even "we didn't like your stupid face". If that's too much work, send me a form letter: "Rejected for reason 13B: poor personal hygiene or fashion sense". Literally anything. Anything.

I understand that companies feel that giving feedback opens them up to potential litigation or bad publicity, but I would happily have signed something to remove their liability. I would have sign an NDA to prevent me from publishing. I just want some data.

[ergocoder]

NDA or any contract can't prevent discrimination lawsuit...

Reward is small. Risk of trouble is very large. Being sued is extremely time consuming.

[colmvp]

I have friends who got rejected by FAANG companies and got precise feedback as to why they didn’t get hired, specifically from the interviews.

And recently, I’ve been rejected by multiple companies in the interview process and all of them said why they rejected me.

If I had to guess, most of the time it’s that telling people why they didn’t even get an interview is time consuming and not all that productive. But telling people why they didn’t get hired following interviews makes sense since the candidate made a substantial effort to get there.