Thing is, no job or position is the same, they are comparable to some extent, but that is it. In that kind of environment, it makes a lot of sense that one candidate will be an excellent fit for one organization and a bad fit for another. Getting negative feedback is saying a lot about that company and little about the applicant. Even if we had some kind of scoring with excellent precision, two persons with the same score, would still get positive and negative feedback from same company.
I feel that you would get a better view of their opinion about you, if they were transparent about their exact person/skill/experience requirements. But then, they would be called biased and possibly expose themself to law suites.
It comes down to specific needs in that time, held by a specific person with specific experiences. The hiring manager and head of department. That is the reason they always say, it's not personal. It's not, it's just politics at that point in time and two years later ones bad candidate can be an excellent fit.
I just finished another interview with another company. This one takes the cake: LIVE coding.
They gave me a simple task, and gave me about 10 minutes (there was no timer), and they said that I cannot execute the code more than 1 time.
It feels sometimes that they are just messing with you. No one is testing your skills, asking you questions to know how you would think or solve a problem, which is the CORE of any developer.
I don't agree that no one is testing skills, but I do agree that you should skip that company. They made it very clear how the perceive reality. Obviously you would not enjoy that vision. Interview is always a two way street.
Thing is, no job or position is the same, they are comparable to some extent, but that is it. In that kind of environment, it makes a lot of sense that one candidate will be an excellent fit for one organization and a bad fit for another. Getting negative feedback is saying a lot about that company and little about the applicant. Even if we had some kind of scoring with excellent precision, two persons with the same score, would still get positive and negative feedback from same company.
I feel that you would get a better view of their opinion about you, if they were transparent about their exact person/skill/experience requirements. But then, they would be called biased and possibly expose themself to law suites.
It comes down to specific needs in that time, held by a specific person with specific experiences. The hiring manager and head of department. That is the reason they always say, it's not personal. It's not, it's just politics at that point in time and two years later ones bad candidate can be an excellent fit.
I just finished another interview with another company. This one takes the cake: LIVE coding.
They gave me a simple task, and gave me about 10 minutes (there was no timer), and they said that I cannot execute the code more than 1 time.
It feels sometimes that they are just messing with you. No one is testing your skills, asking you questions to know how you would think or solve a problem, which is the CORE of any developer.
I don't agree that no one is testing skills, but I do agree that you should skip that company. They made it very clear how the perceive reality. Obviously you would not enjoy that vision. Interview is always a two way street.
I miswrote there, I wanted to say some companies (not all) like the one I was talking about are not testing your skills/mind.