I just got my first rejection from a complete interview round after layoff, and it's so brutal. You think you do a good job on the interviews, or at least okay, but they give you no feedback, and then ask how they can improve the candidate experience. Like, if you can't at least give me some details on what I did wrong, do you really expect me to fill out a candidate survey? Being laid off sucks, this job market sucks. Interviewing with anxiety sucks. Carry on.
100%. I could not agree more. I have gotten zero feedback as well from big companies after putting in weeks of work.
Companies don't want to get sued for providing some feedback.
Correct answer. Also, a small but nontrivial fraction of rejects will show up at your office with a knife. Best to ghost.
Why could they get sued for providing feedback?
For real
Laid off Googler sending 🤗🤗
Same Sometimes I doubt whether the job openings are even real or it's just interview training for the employees of company.
Companies be saying that feedback is confidential. B!tcH it’s my feedback, I gave the interview. I deserve to know what I did that the interviewer didn’t approve of at the very least. If you take so much of my time and don’t select me I at least should be told where I lacked so I can improve.
their rules; you can choose not to play. Having said that, it is a industry problem; H1Bs help the abuse.
not trying to one up you but i got rejected after 3 final round (3 different companies - 5 interviews each) in like 2 weeks. it never got easier, and i kept replaying the events in my mind trying to figure out what went wrong. i still don't understand and i'm at wits' end trying to figure out what my strategy should be, while fighting burn out from all the rejections. shit sucks but you gotta keep fighting!
Last month I interviewed at GoDaddy and they gave me this below feedback after going through 1 month of interview rounds. They rejected me for silly reason though
i swear these companies say they want someone who is "eager to learn" but will reject you for not knowing something right out the gate, not understanding that most of the stuff we know was learned on the job at some point. they want a unicorn candidate: highly experienced, broad and specific skillset, genius brain, extremely sociable and friendly, low asking salary, etc etc.
did they reject you because you only have experience in python/vanilla js?
Moralize your demoralization
Try to shake it off and continue to interview more and more. No matter how good you are, it is always a dice role. You will find something eventually.
Wow, well said.