I was lead dev in a company, I felt strongly that I don't want to reject people without providing them with clear feedback what they did well and didn't do well

I was lead dev in a company, I felt strongly that I don't want to reject people without providing them with clear feedback what they did well and didn't do well. VP hated the idea and very quickly was abandoned. We got a lot of bad candidates tbh, so it was hard to tell them what they did wrong (they bombed pretty much). I still think, done well, it provides great benefit to candidates being considered. Thing that worked well for me, I had elaborate set of topics/knowledge I want my developers to know and be rated on, it wasn't arbitrary selection. Still, when someone bombs, it is hard to relay they did bad.