>> everything was great but the team did not feel the spark. That's a really poor response. I can understand that many of us would have that same implicit gut

>> everything was great but the team did not feel the spark. That's a really poor response. I can understand that many of us would have that same implicit gut feeling, but recruitment, and especially supposedly exemplar recruiters like Stripe, have an obligation to articulate their reasons for decisions in a much more grounded framework. When I say obligation I mean primarily to their internal stakeholders (to candidates would be nice, but let's be realistic here); the team's primary objective is to define & put process around finding, assessing and hiring people, not optimize for efficiently applying bias and "gut feeling" quickly to large pools of people.