The Job Hunt Is Driving Me Mad

The lack of feedback has been an oft cited complaint on so many tech blogs relating their experiences. I haven't seen anything in the way of concrete reasoning; from what I can gather there is little to no incentive within orgs to give actual meaningful, helpful and useful feedback. The org views the interview as little more than an inconvenient interpersonal transaction.

If at the end they find the 'need' has not been met, it seems that it's perfectly acceptable to forget this person and move on, and forgetting that there's a human at the other end. How many of them have been on the other end of the ghosting and forgotten, and how many of us, who have voiced our discontent at the treatment, have similarly ghosted other candidates we've interviewed once we're secure in our positions? There's probably more to it... is there a fear of giving feedback, or is it simply that the people doing the interviewing aren't the ones doing the (canned response) rejections?

I fully sympathize with the author and I've always made it a point to writing up and passing on all the strengths and weaknesses in every candidate I meet, whether they're accepted or not. I have never had a way of telling whether that feedback has reached that candidate though.

I feel many job adverts are just brand marketing / intel gathering exercises. Probably 5-10% are genuinely looking to fill positions.