3 ms·

$15 isn't a huge bounty for the risk of potential litigation/getting fired for breaking company policy for telling honest feedback. This is how I see it from HR

$15 isn't a huge bounty for the risk of potential litigation/getting fired for breaking company policy for telling honest feedback. This is how I see it from HR's perspective. A prospective candidate may not take the feedback as constructive criticism, causing some backlash and issues to the recruiter. Another reason you are not sent as a rejection letter, is because it looks bad on HR's end if you were rejected, only to get hired months later. It basically says to the candidate "Our first pick dipped out on us, we were desperate enough to go through the 2nd pool, called a bunch of people, you were our backup". HR doesn't care about you, just what works for their company. Sending rejection letters takes effort and offers no short-term benefits from HR's standpoint. Also, it can get quite messy to manage emails, especially if HR is aggregating prospective candidates from different portals all to one email.(remoteok.io, indeed.com, glassdoor.com, careerbuilder, reactjsjobs.com, etc) Email responses becomes difficult to manage since you get 100+ emails in your inbox daily, 95% of candidates being unqualified. HR might not be big enough to warrant a dedicated system or tooling for hiring. You can use builtin tools like indeed.com, but from my experience its slower than using email. If you want to get shit done really fast forwarding to an email is time-saving, simple, and cheap. You can then take the best candidates there, put it in kanban / trello / notion task board, etc if its a multistage interview process. Companies aren't going to care enough to blacklist you in some database unless you caused some serious offense to warrant this. I can only think of one company that might actually do this, and its Valve. Also if you apply to the same company more than once, you might be dealing with the same recruiter. They might recognize your resume just from memory though

Balgair 8y ago
> Another reason you are not sent as a rejection letter, is because it looks bad on HR's end if you were rejected, only to get hired months later. It basically says to the candidate "Our first pick dipped out on us, we were desperate enough to go through the 2nd pool, called a bunch of people, you were our backup". Good perspective, I had not thought of that. Thank you.

Balgair 8y ago

> Another reason you are not sent as a rejection letter, is because it looks bad on HR's end if you were rejected, only to get hired months later. It basically says to the candidate "Our first pick dipped out on us, we were desperate enough to go through the 2nd pool, called a bunch of people, you were our backup". Good perspective, I had not thought of that. Thank you.