It's hilarious watching the CEO here trying to do damage control in a highly visible setting after so many burnt programmers emerge to tell their tales.
I hope my responses don't come across as damage control. Talking through this stuff is super valuable, we tweak our hiring process almost continuously based on feedback. Sometimes when people have a bad experience, we've just fucked up. Other times, we set the wrong expectations and there are simple improvements we can make.
I doubt anyone will read frustrated comments and my responses and think "oh boy, I didn't want to apply there but that one guy responded and made me change my mind".
> Talking through this stuff is super valuable, we tweak our hiring process almost continuously based on feedback.
Isn't that ironic, indeed hypocritical? You take feedback from job applicants, consider it super valuable, but refuse to give anything useful to those very job applicants.
Sounded pretty clear and specific. You value feedback on your interview process but don't extend the same courtesy to applicants who would value feedback on their rejected application.
I think people read it as damage control because you're trying to address the feedback while arguing that you guys aren't wrong. That's pretty typical damage control behavior these days.
Between your responses here and the treatment of candidates that appears to be pretty common, Im a big no on ever applying to your company. Your hiring process is broken.
