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I always do this after getting a rejection. They always give something vague like "you're awesome but too junior for us". A good time to request it is when they ask you to fill in a feedback survey.

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i am not talking about asking the recruiter for a reason, but asking copies of ALL notes made by ALL employees, at ALL times of the entire process. basically everything.

What a ludicrous request.

If it's always vague, why bother asking?

There's normally a list of things I could have messed up, e.g. poor English, no visa, wrong time zone, sloppy code, too slow on a certain test, many other great applications, poor understanding of a framework, etc.

You can trace back a one sentence comment to the actual root cause. It's like debugging. And from that, you spot the pattern and optimize.

did they give you more than that vague reason and did your request go through legal?

You should be able to get a read on these things during the interview

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