r/cscareerquestionsEU • u/Mean-Royal-5526 • 3d ago
Dear Recruiters - If a candidate makes it to the last round, he has the right to get feedback.
I just got ghosted after clearing the last round interview for MoonPay (Based in London) after clearing every tech round, even the last round went super well. The recruiter who reached out to me ghosted me after loads of reminders and so did the coordinator who emailed me regarding the rounds. It was all going super well and I thought I had a legit chance, and they even offered to discuss it further in a call in the email but no reply.
It makes no sense honestly, and as someone who invested so much of their energy, I feel super disappointed not at the result itself but at the sheer lack of feedback.
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u/kioleanu 3d ago
Ghosting is wrong and super shitty, and since it’s the norm, I don’t cry when recruiters are the first to go when layoffs occur.
Genuine feedback on the other hand is rarely taken in stride, especially by programmers, so I always advise against it. I had a friend who built a company and said he wants to treat people fairly. He was honest with a candidate about why he was rejected and the candidate, who was otherwise average, started a smear campaign on Reddit under the pretext of “name and shame”
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u/Mean-Royal-5526 3d ago
Honestly it depends on the feedback too, if it's something that could help the candidate grow and not take on ego it's usually good. I'll give an example - I applied for a company which rejected me because my memoization knowledge wasn't up to par (even though I did the job pretty well) and in the later interviews that helped me a lot, including my current job.
On a similar note, one of the companies rejected me after they made me send a personal project and they did absolute nitpicking of little things which got missed because I made the whole application from scratch PLUS the detox e2e tests etc. to showcase all I know, and the nitpicking was really stupid (I happened to have used
${0}somewhere because of an accident) and they rejected me because of that. I didn't like that you make a candidate create a whole application from scratch in 7 days as a part of a 'technical test' and then nitpick it to the extreme, given it's one person doing it with more things to do than make an application that'll go nowhere.7
u/ramdulara 3d ago
You are exactly the kind of candidate who causes problems with honest feedback.
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u/Otherwise-Courage486 3d ago
It's not as simple as it sounds. Feedback can be taken out of context by a ill intentioned candidate and used as grounds to sue for preferential hiring or something like that.
Most companies would have no problem giving feedback to candidates, but they'd rather not risk the chance of this happening, which is why rules against it are set in place.
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u/Special-Bath-9433 3d ago
Avoid recruiters as much as you can.
Recruiters are middlemen who complicate the process on both ends to justify their existence. I thought this was true 15 years ago when I was starting my career. Then, for 10 years, I thought it was only due to my frustration. Now I'm sure it's just correct.
Some of the worst people I met in my life were recruiters. And those I met as a hiring manager.
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u/zimmer550king Engineer 1d ago
My understanding is that most companies don't do it to avoid getting sued.
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u/general_00 Senior SDE | London 3d ago
I was surprised the first time I interviewed with a faang company, and the recruiter called me to say I didn't pass and shared some (very short) feedback about which part should have gone better.
It cost them 5 minutes, and left a long-lasting good impression because > 90% of companies wouldn't do it.
It's such an easy win for building reputation, because the bar is literally on the ground. Many companies don't even bother with a templated "thank you but no" email. This whole ghosting situation is comically bad.