Clojurians Log v2
clojure-uk 2026-10-26
Morning
morning, did a technical take home test last week, they asked for it to be done in 74 hours, spend 2-3 hours and record a video showing the project and a walk through of the code. I assumed (likely incorrectly) there would be a follow up interview to discuss approach, tradeoff's etc. but instead got a generic rejection about "processing with better qualified candidates". Not sure if I'm being over the top but I find this really annoying and somewhat disrespectful. I've asked for feedback.
How frustrating!
yeah, I don't mind being rejected, but the not knowing why, I find hard to take.
It's also annoying to spend time on a technical test and not get any feedback.
yeah, getting no feedback is pretty poor IMHO.
❤️
In the US, companies have to be very careful about what they tell candidates to avoid lawsuits so they rarely give any feedback. Was this a US company with offices in the UK?
yes, they where a US company, hiring remote is US/Europe. It's a shame.
Yup, legally, you pretty much never get feedback from a US company. Their hands are tied on that, since rejection reasons are so sensitive. It is a shame. Americans are very litigious 😞 But, also, Americans have almost no labor protections: nearly everything here is "at will" employment, meaning neither side (employer or employee) has to give any reason for termination/quitting and also no notice. So, that sucks even more.
The US seems to be country that is designed to make lawyers richer.
When there are layoffs during the work day, security often escort folks off the premises immediately, and you're allowed to come back later for your personal effects, which have been gathered up by HR or managers, and placed in the lobby for hand-off to security and then to ex-employees.
It's why, these days, they just tend to revoke people's security badges overnight, so they don't know they've been laid off until they arrive at work and can't get in (although they can usually pick up their personal belongings at that point, and just go home).
The US is a country designed to make the rich richer and to screw over workers at almost every opportunity 😉
(can you tell I am glad to be retiring soon?)
Also, it sounds like you're going to work more (on your open source projects) when retired 🫣
As long as I can find stuff to work on, yeah @mario.giampietri 🙂
and old meme (which I cannot find anymore, dammit) comes to mind. It was about a uni professor saying something like: leaving academy to focus on true passions: research, studying, teaching
Mornin'!
Mornin'!