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Have you gotten a response after asking why you weren't hired? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/cs_career_questions@programming.dev
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I know the market is ass rn, I've been looking for a job since I graduated in November of last year with no luck. Every application I get a response like "you are great, your skills are great, you meet every criteria but we found someone better". I recently decided to start replying to emails to ask why I wasn't picked (I reply only to emails that aren't from no-reply or if the say I can ask for feedback). So far I have not even received one reply. Am I wasting my time??? I feel like it's just from automated systems and they don't even look at it. Is everything literally a ghost job?? If you have ever asked for feedback have you gotten anything useful from it?

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[–] 1 point 11 months ago

Only if they volunteered it. Some places give better detail. Usually its ones where I was working with a headhunter. I had one where I got passed three rounds and it was down to me an another guy and they said he got half a point better on a technical evaluation. Many times I get feedback that they have pulled the listing or such. Basically that they are not going to actually fill the role. Those are disturbing as it means a more general trend of not moving forward with projects and hiring and such.

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