Ask HN: Which company rejected you and why?

#1

Post by josario » Thu, May 02, 2019, 2:02 PM UTC

I just got rejected from Stripe and they got me no feedback with the rejection. Is this common? I've asked for further feedback but got no response. What about making a list of company with bad behaviour during the interview process?

Re: Ask HN: Which company rejected you and why?

#2

Post by edwinwee » Thu, May 02, 2019, 2:11 PM UTC

For Stripe, no, this is not common. You should receive feedback, and I'm very sorry for the lack of response. Could you email me at edwin@stripe.com?

Re: Ask HN: Which company rejected you and why?

#3

Post by josario » Thu, May 02, 2019, 2:27 PM UTC

edwinwee wrote: post #2

For Stripe, no, this is not common. You should receive feedback, and I'm very sorry for the lack of response. Could you email me at edwin@stripe.com?

I received this when asked for feedback:

"Unfortunately, it is not Stripes’ policy to provide detailed feedback for interviews."

That's totally ok, I just think that a good company should give honest feedback to people to understand where to improve or if the decision to not go forward was based on other criteria.

Re: Ask HN: Which company rejected you and why?

#4

Post by philpem » Thu, May 02, 2019, 2:49 PM UTC

Rejection with no feedback is the most common response I've had. In a lot of cases, I've asked for feedback and been told "for (legal reasons, operational reasons) we don't give feedback".

It's shitty, but them's the breaks.

Re: Ask HN: Which company rejected you and why?

#5

Post by josario » Thu, May 02, 2019, 2:58 PM UTC

philpem wrote: post #4

Rejection with no feedback is the most common response I've had. In a lot of cases, I've asked for feedback and been told "for (legal reasons, operational reasons) we don't give feedback". It's shitty, but them's the breaks.

I don't know if in Europe this can be enforced because of GDPR, so you can ask for all data related to you.

Re: Ask HN: Which company rejected you and why?

#6

Post by imgshk2 » Thu, May 02, 2019, 3:25 PM UTC

Got rejected from Nubank last week for data infrastructure engineer role. Feedback after the technical interview was "Your profile suits DevOps role and not dev support role." Not sure what that even means. I wonder if i cannot write clean code, how i cleared the take home assignment with positive feedback.

Re: Ask HN: Which company rejected you and why?

#7

Post by AwesomeFaic » Thu, May 02, 2019, 5:29 PM UTC

Got rejected by a large company a couple years ago and they declined to give me a reason. Six months ago I started a contract with them and got the salaried, full-time position last month >:)

Re: Ask HN: Which company rejected you and why?

#8

Post by stoufa88 » Thu, May 02, 2019, 9:08 PM UTC

You can use glassdoor for this purpose

Re: Ask HN: Which company rejected you and why?

#9

Post by philpem » Fri, May 03, 2019, 9:51 AM UTC

josario wrote: post #5

philpem wrote: post #4

Rejection with no feedback is the most common response I've had. In a lot of cases, I've asked for feedback and been told "for (legal reasons, operational reasons) we don't give feedback". It's shitty, but them's the breaks.

I don't know if in Europe this can be enforced because of GDPR, so you can ask for all data related to you.

I think that'd be a pretty good way to burn bridges, to be fair. A GDPR subject access request would be a lot of paperwork...