Timeline for How can I ask my interviewers for feedback following an interview?
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| Jul 3, 2019 at 22:48 | comment | added | Gray Sheep | I would only very carefully share my opinion about languages/technologies, but not because I don't have one. I would be very careful in the fear, what is my opinion essentially differs the interviewers'... don't expect a honest answer if you ask this from candidates. They will try to find out, what you want to hear, and this is what they will answer. | |
| Sep 6, 2016 at 23:49 | comment | added | tmaj | @kevin Great point, and very important too. I would even add it to your answer. | |
| Sep 6, 2016 at 23:09 | comment | added | kevin cline | @Tymski: We very carefully avoid bad hires because we care about the people we are hiring. A bad hire may not have that much impact on the company, but it can be devastating to the new employee who is hired and then dismissed. At the very worst, they left a secure but not entirely satisfactory position, moved their family to a new city, and then after a few months find themselves unemployed. | |
| Sep 6, 2016 at 21:59 | comment | added | tmaj | "a bad hire is so much worse than an incorrect rejection.". I always find this attitude to be short sighted. I believe it comes from the fact that it's much easier to quantify a bad hire. Great people who you didn't hire can inflict much more damage to your company than few mismatches which were fired after 6 weeks. | |
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| Mar 28, 2015 at 15:50 | comment | added | Josh | +1, I also conduct interviews as part of my role at Amazon, and this is correct. Furthermore, it is against our hiring policy to give direct feedback to the candidate. We're simply not allowed to, regardless of if an offer is made or not. This is in part because a candidate might interview again at some point in the future and this time get hired, and we want to avoid any negative emotions between team members (we don't want people holding grudges the feedback they received in an interview) | |
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| Apr 21, 2012 at 10:14 | comment | added | Desmond Zhou | Amazon take a cautious approach to hiring and frequently reject candidates who are good, but not outstanding. This could either be due to a specific flaw the team notice that raises a warning flag, or the overall level of expertise, passion and team fit. Interviewers cannot tell you how you did or give you feed backs both for liability reasons, and to avoid divulging Amazon policy. | |
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| Apr 18, 2012 at 17:10 | vote | accept | Tarik | ||
| Apr 18, 2012 at 15:36 | comment | added | kevin cline | Usually, after an in-person interview, all the interviewers meet to make a decision. In my experience, it takes unanimous agreement to hire someone, because a bad hire is so much worse than an incorrect rejection. But it's rare that only one interviewer is unfavorable. Most often all the interviewers have similar opinions. | |
| Apr 18, 2012 at 14:54 | comment | added | Tarik | One more thing, who do you think is deciding whether I have one of those problems up there? HR or Hiring Manager or some other department? | |
| Apr 18, 2012 at 14:52 | comment | added | Tarik | Seems like what you said up there... | |
| Apr 18, 2012 at 5:44 | history | answered | kevin cline | CC BY-SA 3.0 |