Yeah, it has always been unprompted. We all try and treat as a fun exercise, occasionally with beer although I've never had an interviewee accept the offer of a

Yeah, it has always been unprompted. We all try and treat as a fun exercise, occasionally with beer although I've never had an interviewee accept the offer of any drink other than water. I also go out of my way to make sure I communicate with the candidate. We take the voice vote immediately after the interview, and I call the candidate within 24 hours. If there are any no votes I make sure to tell the candidate why, and try and give them pointers for specific areas they would need to improve on to work here and try and point them at resources they can use to improve. We're in a relatively small market, and it pays to be nice to everyone. Anyone we interview I am pretty much guaranteed to run into at some sort of dev event. And just because someone wasn't a good fit today, it doesn't mean they won't be the perfect candidate next year or two years from now.