[bleepblop]

> Hiring managers who want to make rejections feel less impersonal can do it by sharing the news in an email initially and then offering a phone call for feedback if the person wants one,

People are getting offers for feedback? Every time I have asked for feedback I get met with nothing. Like, how am I supposed to improve if I don't know what is missing?

[ianwalter]

Do you have any friends that can go through a mock interview with you? There are also mentorship platforms that offer this as a service. I am biased since I have been on the mentor side of this, but I think they are well worth the money.

[ghaff]

One problem with feedback is that the reality is that people are often not hired rather than rejected.

I've been on a bunch of hiring committees (for mostly not purely technical jobs). And a lot of the time the discussion takes the form of "eh," "not feeling the love," or "we can probably do better." Usually it's not about alarms blaring or red flags going up or some specific skill set missing. (To be fair, the jobs I've been on committees for usually involve a lot of interpersonal relationship skills rather than a specific set of technical requirements.)

[harvey9]

I think those scenarios are exactly where feedback could be valuable to the candidate. If the panel didn't feel the love, why so? If I get a low score on a coding test I am already going to realise that its going badly right there in the test so feedback is less valuable.

[ghaff]

In my experience, it's either hard to articulate or it's something I wouldn't say to them like "you came across as very arrogant." Not the same thing but imagine dating scenarios. I've had plenty of situations where there were no red flags and also I couldn't have filled out a questionnaire about why I didn't "click" with a person.

That's not always the case. "Your writing sample was poor" so take a writing class. But I'd say that has been the minority and I could name one mistake where I assumed that was a flaw we could fix.