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If you want feedback - go with third party recruiters, they are eager to collect feedback themselves and the hiring managers share with them more openly than wi
by pandaman 3y ago
If you want feedback - go with third party recruiters, they are eager to collect feedback themselves and the hiring managers share with them more openly than with a random candidate. Of course, there are issues with this way of job search (recruiters pressuring you to take lowball offers, double submitting, putting a negative weight on your application with their fee, generally being unable to work with companies that do not work with such recruiters, etc) so it might be not worth it. After all, the only feedback that really matters is the number on your paystub.
- goostavos 3y agoWhat possible feedback are people looking for after an interview, though? I've done 100s of interviews throughout my time at FAANGs. The bulk of the feedback generated is just low-value snap judgements made by people who really don't want to be there. It's a dice roll. You either land in a loop that (a) has more people that like you rather than dislike you, and (b) asks questions you know how to answer, and, by far most importantly, that you answer in the way that lines up with their biases, or you're dropped as an incompetent rube. One of my coworkers at Amazon was leaving for greener pastures. Before she left, for the lols she showed me the feedback she left when she interviewed me. It was something absolutely brutal along the lines of "doesn't appear to be able to code at all" (I was offended upon seeing this "feedback"!). My point being: interviewing is stupid, and, generally speaking, there is no valuable feedback to be had from the process.
- pandaman 3y agoI agree, the feedback often makes no sense (this is probably why most companies do not give it to candidates), but if you want it - you can get it from a third party recruiter anyways.