Yeah, that's the explanation I've heard. "We don't feel you're a good fit at this time" says nothing beyond 'no', and so there is nothing for a particularly lit

Yeah, that's the explanation I've heard. "We don't feel you're a good fit at this time" says nothing beyond 'no', and so there is nothing for a particularly litigious candidate to use against the company. A more verbose explanation, which would be appreciated by a majority of candidates, might accidentally give them fodder for a lawsuit. I'm actually curious how useful it would be though. I can only think of a couple of times I've interviewed, and been genuinely curious why the company decided not to continue with me. Most times it's been "-Wow-, that was a poor fit", either culturally, or what they expected me to know, or how the position was sold to me, or whatever (my favorite being an interview with Microsoft, where the HR rep scheduling it said coding in Java would be fine, but then the interviewer was predominantly a C guy, and so was telling me that my for(int i=0; i<stringObj.length; i++) meant I was running in O(n^2) time, and my having to correct him...yeah), and only one or two times left me curious what their impressions were.