| The effort was zero - I copy-pasted an e-mail template from the internet and volia. Yes, this is in Europe. I think I learned quite a lot, namely: - why I failed the interview (I struggled to produce correct code, the code wasn't very robust and I said it's ok to put it into production) - why I haven't failed the interview (ex. no mention of my English language skills) - which was more valuable for me than the "why I failed" - a fairly good confidence that there's little details omitted - when they submit you a voluntary feedback they may give just the most obvious information. Ofc I didn't get the data about what was said on internal meetings. - some insight into their internal structure, opinions of individual interviews about me etc. I probably burned bridges with that company but after the interview neither party was interested in cooperation so I decided to give it a shot and see what happens. I had to wait exactly 30 (or 14?) days (GDPR deadline) for the feedback to get to my mailbox. |
An interviewee was unhappy with my decision and felt that they hadn't had a fair hearing - and complained.
In this case we had a standard form where we assessed candidates over multiple factors (comms skills, technical skills, etc) - so if they got to see the result they'll have seen evaluations on all of that.
I wasn't very impressed with getting the complaint (the only one out of 100+ interviews) but hopefully GDPR is a more neutral way of getting that sort of feedback these days.