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Comment by cllns | Hacker News Reader

I had a lackluster interview experience at the company the author works for and mentions. After completing a coding challenge, I got a generic:

  "After deliberating, we have decided not to proceed with your application."

I asked for more specific feedback, from two different people, and got no response.

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That's pretty much standard operating procedure. You don't want to open the company up to a legal challenge as an interviewer...

This seems completely unrelated to the article and doesn't really add anything to the conversation.

I mentioned it because the company itself was plugged in the post.

Also there's a bit of irony involved, where they're extolling the virtues of data, but failing to provide proper interview feedback.

That's generally the only feedback you'll get from any company.

That's not true. I've gotten better, more detailed feedback from other companies. Things like: your approach for this coding challenge was X when you should have been doing Y.

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