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Nowadays (almost) no one will give you post-interview feedback. The risk of being sued for "discrimination" because of whatever made-up reason is just too high.

Nowadays (almost) no one will give you post-interview feedback. The risk of being sued for "discrimination" because of whatever made-up reason is just too high. In the World when more and more people belong to unknown 3 months earlier "oppressed minority" nobody wants to take chances. The funniest story I read the other day on HN was about some company which needed to fire 10% of their employees. After consulting with the lawyers, consulting company they have hired to help in the process they decided to take a contractor, who would not have any knowledge about employees. That contractor's only job was to randomly select 10% of people to fire. Simple, cheap, safe, no risk of being sued, maybe they have fired some people who would be worth to keep (if they really wish they could hire them back anyway). This is the sad World we live in.

mhd 7y ago
> In the World when more and more people belong to unknown 3 months earlier "oppressed minority" nobody wants to take chances. Oh come on. What country are you living in where they only managed to catch up with civil rights in the last three months? Last added protected class in the US was 2014, if I recall correctly. Can't we keep those "we live in a society" posts confined to reddit?
rkangel 7y ago
> Nowadays (almost) no one will give you post-interview feedback. In Europe, GDPR allows you to ask for your interview notes, and discrimination laws mean that companies need to actually have reasons in them for not hiring you. Given that a GDPR data request is more effort than just providing feedback you usually get some response to the question.
hobs 7y ago
This blog claims that that doesn't happen ever and the HR drones are way over committing to risk mitigation. It was on HN a few days back. http://blog.interviewing.io/no-engineer-has-ever-sued-a-company-because-of-constructive-post-interview-feedback-so-why-dont-employers-do-it/ http://blog.interviewing.io/no-engineer-has-ever-sued-a-comp...

mhd 7y ago

> In the World when more and more people belong to unknown 3 months earlier "oppressed minority" nobody wants to take chances. Oh come on. What country are you living in where they only managed to catch up with civil rights in the last three months? Last added protected class in the US was 2014, if I recall correctly. Can't we keep those "we live in a society" posts confined to reddit?

rkangel 7y ago

> Nowadays (almost) no one will give you post-interview feedback. In Europe, GDPR allows you to ask for your interview notes, and discrimination laws mean that companies need to actually have reasons in them for not hiring you. Given that a GDPR data request is more effort than just providing feedback you usually get some response to the question.

hobs 7y ago

This blog claims that that doesn't happen ever and the HR drones are way over committing to risk mitigation. It was on HN a few days back. http://blog.interviewing.io/no-engineer-has-ever-sued-a-company-because-of-constructive-post-interview-feedback-so-why-dont-employers-do-it/ http://blog.interviewing.io/no-engineer-has-ever-sued-a-comp...