Sean Robinson

Three engineers. Same team. Same tools. Three completely different stages. Most organisations are spread across the AI adoption curve without knowing it, and the big numbers only appear at the end.

Reading every single comment and message has taught me something: interviews are making everyone miserable. Candidates, hiring managers, recruiters, the lot. And the data backs this up in a way that's honestly quite grim.

At the end of every interview, I ask the candidate if they'd like feedback on how it went. And then—here's the controversial bit—I actually give it to them. Not the sanitised HR-approved version three weeks later after they've already assumed the worst. Not the vague "we've decided to progress with other candidates" email that tells them precisely nothing. Honest interview feedback. Right there in the room. I tell them what went well. I tell them what didn't. I'm authentic and transparent...