[dustingetz]

let me share the hiring manager side when you’re at a medium sized company without a super organized process - writing that email takes 20 mins of hard focus (to very carefully give feedback without blowback) assuming they even remember the interview, and that the person writing the email even made the decision. most interviews are ambiguous and the hiring manager is doing 3 to 5 interviews over a few weeks, by which point earlier candidates are forgotten, and hiring manager is staring at a list of candidates to reject that they don’t even remember and this is the least important thing on their todo list that day. very easy to just close that laptop and go home

[marcuskane2]

Nobody is asking you to write a 20 minute email with careful feedback.

A templated rejection email sent from whatever tool you're using to manage resumes/interviews is fine.

"Dear applicant, we have decided not to move forward with your application. Thank you for your time. We appreciate your interest and wish you the best" is far better than getting ghosted.

[iamatoool]

Aren't most using a SaaS to manage the process? In addition don't most have job criteria they are ranking against. You could give good feedback with just the data in the DB in 5 minutes using a template and stock answers. This assumes a well organised fair process of course. An internal or external recruiter could deliver the news.

[nalleyne]

This perspective makes it more understandable, but after 1-2 follow-ups, does that usually remain the case?