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Everyone says this, but do you know of any actual situations where a company's feedback led to a lawsuit? Even an unsuccessful or settled one would be interesti
by mattkrause 8y ago
Everyone says this, but do you know of any actual situations where a company's feedback led to a lawsuit? Even an unsuccessful or settled one would be interesting.
I'm also not totally sure about the minimal value of feedback. I interviewed at IBM several years ago, and actually did get useful feedback from the hiring manager. I was referred by someone way up the food chain and the feedback was fairly non-controversial (unlike my background, the job was much more business than technical), so maybe this was unusual.
However, the fact that someone was willing to spend 5 minutes explaining why their decision–and outlining some steps I could take to make myself more competitive—gave me more positive impression of IBM than their 3,000 different Watson commercials put together.
- Traster 8y agoTo give you a counter example though, I've worked at a big corporation in past, ended up in management hiring in engineers for my team. It was at that point I found out that the engineers that traditionally interview had never been trained on what an interview is for, how it should work, or specifically what not to say or do. I found that out because the interviewers would openly feedback things that were blatantly discriminatory and interviewees would feedback comments like "They sat me in a room for 3 hours, 3 hours of back to back technical interviews and no one so much as offered me a cup of tea". We never had any lawsuits, but from that perspective I totally understand how the company I worked for (employs over 100k employees) saw every employee as a walking liability.