<story><title>Why Do Employers Rarely Offer Explanations to Rejected Candidates?</title><url>https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-do-employers-rarely-offer-explanations-rejected-ambra-benjamin?trk=hp-feed-article-title-comment</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jzwinck</author><text>Not only does fear of lawsuits prevent companies from disclosing no-hire reasons, it prevents them from even recording those reasons internally.&lt;p&gt;If you get rejected and don&amp;#x27;t know why, take heart: a year from now the company also won&amp;#x27;t know why. You can apply again as if it were Groundhog Day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>refurb</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think that&amp;#x27;s true for all companies.  The big, multi-national company I work for keeps all candidate assessment form that have been filled out by the interviewer (even for summer interns).  Of course we&amp;#x27;re trained beforehand to not put stuff in the form that could be construed as discriminatory based on protected classes.&lt;p&gt;You have to keep in mind that if a candidate is rejected and comes back and says it was illegal discrimination, those forms are valuable evidence to show why the candidate was not selected.  Get rid of the forms and it&amp;#x27;s basically your word against theirs in court.&lt;p&gt;That said, I&amp;#x27;ve also been told that no one every goes to the trouble to dig those up later on.  Even for current employees.  You could get a letter of reprimand put in your file and nobody would probably see it again (this comment came from HR).</text></comment>
<story><title>Why Do Employers Rarely Offer Explanations to Rejected Candidates?</title><url>https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-do-employers-rarely-offer-explanations-rejected-ambra-benjamin?trk=hp-feed-article-title-comment</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jzwinck</author><text>Not only does fear of lawsuits prevent companies from disclosing no-hire reasons, it prevents them from even recording those reasons internally.&lt;p&gt;If you get rejected and don&amp;#x27;t know why, take heart: a year from now the company also won&amp;#x27;t know why. You can apply again as if it were Groundhog Day.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wheaties</author><text>We keep a record of all coding exercises performed by people who want to come in for an interview. We reference it for those who reapply to see if there has been improvement. All of our interview questions are in a github repo and peer reviewd so you don&amp;#x27;t get those brain teaser useless questions.&lt;p&gt;I wish we took notes during interviews. On well. We still remember candidates who apply multiple times.</text></comment>