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Exactly. How is a rejected applicant supposed to improve if they don't have any feedback?

• droithomme 14y ago
  Here are how the rejected applicants can improve: 1. Stop lying on the CV, about past experience, and about skills. 2. Stop being a jerk, learn some social skills. 3. Stop being incompetent, learn to actually build quality products. No one that has a problem with any of those is interested in fixing it though, and in general being a liar, a jerk and incompetent isn't something that can be fixed anyway, so feedback won't do any good. If you are competent, truthful and not a jerk, you'll be getting job offers. If you aren't, you know what the problem is and how to fix it.
  • Swizec 14y ago
    I am competent, truthful and not a jerk. I get many job offers. But sometimes I don't. Say, about 2 in 10 discussions lead to either never hearing back or being told I'm not a good fit. Often this happens because I'm in the wrong stack and they didn't specify. Other times ... shrug What am I doing wrong on those occasions? I don't know. And never will. Although once, just once, I managed to figure it out after a few months. That was with Google. But they gave me specific technical feedback on waht I did wrong. Eventually I was able to realise what I was saying wrong that made them think I didn't know those technical things (it was an extremely consistent brain fart that lasted all day, through all 6 interviews, but they can't know that, they just know I was saying the wrong things)
    • droithomme 14y ago
      You asked and I told you how it is at my company. I am not privy to other company's reasons. Your phrasing implies that you get a job offer after 80% of interviews. That seems a perfectly fine record and it seems there is no need to know what was going on in the other 20% of interviews, so things are good.