<story><title>The Secret Rules For Getting Hired</title><url>https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/04/the-secret-rules-for-getting-hired/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brandonmenc</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;quot;If someone doesn&amp;#x27;t send a thank you email, don&amp;#x27;t hire them&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I recently went through a short job search for programming work in Austin. I made it all the way to the final, on-site interview at three places before landing an offer.&lt;p&gt;Every time I did not get an offer, I would get an email saying &amp;quot;thank you so much for your time, please reply with your concerns or questions!&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;And so, each time, I sent and email asking &amp;quot;what did I do wrong, and what could I improve?&amp;quot; making it very clear I was just looking for a quick, single sentence answer like &amp;quot;more github projects&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;you smell.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I didn&amp;#x27;t get a single reply. Not one.&lt;p&gt;After that, I quit playing the ultra polite send-a-thank-you for every single phone call or meeting I was graced with, and sure enough, I got a couple job offers after that.&lt;p&gt;If anything, the whole experience convinced me that no one maybe outside of sales or filling an executive position really cares about this kind of business etiquette - either in giving it or receiving it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fencepost</author><text>&lt;i&gt;each time, I sent and email asking &amp;quot;what did I do wrong, and what could I improve?&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s no upside for the company in giving any substantial answer to questions like this, and significant potential downside.&lt;p&gt;Among other things it&amp;#x27;s generally not going to be that you were rejected for the position, it&amp;#x27;s that someone else was chosen over you. &amp;quot;Rejected&amp;quot; would be &amp;quot;we&amp;#x27;d rather leave the position vacant than hire you&amp;quot; and if that&amp;#x27;s the case there&amp;#x27;s even more reason to not tell you unless it was for purely technical reasons.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Secret Rules For Getting Hired</title><url>https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/04/the-secret-rules-for-getting-hired/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>brandonmenc</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;quot;If someone doesn&amp;#x27;t send a thank you email, don&amp;#x27;t hire them&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I recently went through a short job search for programming work in Austin. I made it all the way to the final, on-site interview at three places before landing an offer.&lt;p&gt;Every time I did not get an offer, I would get an email saying &amp;quot;thank you so much for your time, please reply with your concerns or questions!&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;And so, each time, I sent and email asking &amp;quot;what did I do wrong, and what could I improve?&amp;quot; making it very clear I was just looking for a quick, single sentence answer like &amp;quot;more github projects&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;you smell.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I didn&amp;#x27;t get a single reply. Not one.&lt;p&gt;After that, I quit playing the ultra polite send-a-thank-you for every single phone call or meeting I was graced with, and sure enough, I got a couple job offers after that.&lt;p&gt;If anything, the whole experience convinced me that no one maybe outside of sales or filling an executive position really cares about this kind of business etiquette - either in giving it or receiving it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>overgard</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t even remember ever asking for feedback from an interview. It&amp;#x27;s awkward for the employer, especially if they&amp;#x27;re going through a lot of candidates, and usually if I don&amp;#x27;t pass an interview I tend to know why. I mean if you&amp;#x27;re socially intelligent, usually you can tell if you&amp;#x27;ve said something they don&amp;#x27;t like. Plus I imagine a lot of employers probably have policies against answering that kind of question just for liability reasons, or just to not drag things out.</text></comment>