Timeline for Is it ethical/professional to give feedback to a candidate during an interview?
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| Sep 7, 2016 at 14:25 | comment | added | RemcoGerlich | Surely giving feedback when asked is helping the applicant, and therefore the opposite of burning a bridge? | |
| Sep 7, 2016 at 10:30 | comment | added | David Schwartz | Maybe you deal with horrible people a lot more than I do, but this has forged bridges for me, not burned them. People who are honest about your flaws and will give you helpful feedback are incredibly valuable if you're trying to become better at what you do. I've had people come back to me after being hired to ask what they can do better because they knew I'd give them honest feedback. The employee is evaluating you too -- do you want them to think you aren't someone who help them improve and grow? | |
| Sep 7, 2016 at 10:11 | comment | added | cdkMoose | It's a situation HR doesn't want to get in and they will probably speak to you about not doing it again. No point in getting on HRs bad side | |
| Sep 7, 2016 at 8:29 | comment | added | David Richerby | @cdkMoose So what if they call and ask that? There's no inconsistency in a candidate doing well and not getting the job. The answer is always "We thought somebody else did better so we hired them." As long as the interviewer didn't say they were the best candidate, the question just shows that the applicant doesn't understand how being hired works. It's a bit like complaining after an auction, "I bid $150, which was a lot of money. Why didn't I get the item?" | |
| Sep 6, 2016 at 21:13 | comment | added | cdkMoose | Conversely if you are in the minority on the positive side, you don't want the applicant reaching out to HR saying "Why didn't I get the job, Eugene A said I did great in the interview" | |
| Sep 6, 2016 at 21:04 | history | answered | Dan Pichelman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |