No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-interview feedback
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No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-interview feedback
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Re: No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-interview feedback
#2How would you know that no one has ever sued?
It if happened (and I'd bet it did many times), it wouldn't be public knowledge.
Re: No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-interview feedback
#3How would you know that no one has ever sued? It if happened (and I'd bet it did many times), it wouldn't be public knowledge.
> While researching this piece, I spoke to a few labor lawyers and ran some Lexis Nexis searches to see just how often a company’s constructive feedback (i.e. not “durrrr we didn’t hire you because you’re a woman”) to a rejected eng candidate has resulted in litigation.
> Hey, guess what? IT’S ZERO! THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED. EVER.
> As some of my lawyer contacts pointed out, a lot of cases get settled out of court, and that data is much harder to get.
It seems like this is the best possible methodology (Lexis Nexis + survey of labor lawyers) that one can ask for.
Re: No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-interview feedback
#4How would you know that no one has ever sued? It if happened (and I'd bet it did many times), it wouldn't be public knowledge.
If it went to court it is public knowledge by the US constitution. If someone settled out of court that is not easy to find (as the article points out)
Re: No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-interview feedback
#5Perhaps if more people utilized glassdoor and talent steered clear, then we might see a positive change here.
Until then, there is no incentive for employers to spend time formalizing and providing that feedback.
Re: No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-interview feedback
#6One time we gave feedback on request and the candidate contested the feedback, then went out on a social media rampage. So yeah, we stopped after that. It only takes one bad candidate to make it not worth the effort.
Re: No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-interview feedback
#7I got verbal feedback exactly one time (at Microsoft) during my attempt to land a post-1-year of university internship. I had solved the algorithm in a few minutes, but when trying to code it up, I struggled a fair amount before figuring it out. The feedback I got was "You seem like a smart person, who hasn't done very much coding. That makes you a bad risk. Go practice programming and come back next year". It was incredibly valuable advice that I got no where else, and it resulted in me coming back to MS a couple of years later once I graduated (I'm not there anymore).
I wish more people would give real, actionable feedback on interviews.
Re: No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-interview feedback
#8Half joking answer: because no engineer has ever received interviewing feedback
Re: No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-interview feedback
#9There's nothing in the company's interest to give feedback. It takes working time to compile this feedback and give it to the candidate. The candidate isn't going to interview at the company again until probably a year or more - if ever. And the company has a reputation risk if the candidate decides to revel this feedback and allege bias or ineffective interviewing.
Re: No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-interview feedback
#10How would you know that no one has ever sued? It if happened (and I'd bet it did many times), it wouldn't be public knowledge.
If it went to court it is public knowledge by the US constitution. If someone settled out of court that is not easy to find (as the article points out)
>If someone settled out of court that is not easy to find (as the article points out)
Even if it was settled, surely the initial complaint would be public?