Sandeep Rao ·
Ask for feedback after a rejection, but ask a narrow question
"Was there a specific round where I fell short?" gets answered more often than "do you have any feedback for me", which is easy to decline politely. Not every company will reply. The ones that do usually give you the single most useful sentence of your whole search.
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