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I've been on both sides of this - still am - as an employer and a candidate. There are two reasons not to give specific feedback, even if it is requested: (1) A
by auctiontheory 13y ago
I've been on both sides of this - still am - as an employer and a candidate. There are two reasons not to give specific feedback, even if it is requested:
(1) A good proportion of candidates will disagree, argue, and waste a lot of your time. Think about how many people you know in real life who don't want to accept the truth about some flaw they have. Probably all of us do this in some way.
(2) In the US, any feedback beyond generic opens the employer up to creative lawsuits. Unfortunate but true.
In rare cases, where the issue is purely a technical skill, I could see telling someone: learn this, get this specific experience, then come back to us.