The worst kind of feedback you can receive is none.

This is something I have stood by in all my years of interviewing and being interviewed, whether as a candidate at the beginning of my career, or now as I regularly interview senior executives for automotive roles.

But there is something worse. Bad feedback. Feedback that is essentially meaningless. I’m talking about, “You were good, just not good enough,” and its bland, uninformative cousins.

This is in no way useful for a candidate.