I assume anyone applying for an analyst position at Givewell would be applying for a similar type of position at the Civil Service.
My experience with government positions is that they are legally required to have relatively formulaic hiring criteria. A benefit of this is that itâs easy to give feedback: you just screenshot your rubric and say âhere are the columns where you didnât get enough pointsâ.
So my guess is that even if there was literally the same position at GiveWell and the UK Civil Service it would be substantially easier to give feedback for the civil service one (which of course doesnât necessarily mean that GW shouldnât give feedback, just that they are meaningfully different reference classes).
My experience with government positions is that they are legally required to have relatively formulaic hiring criteria. A benefit of this is that itâs easy to give feedback: you just screenshot your rubric and say âhere are the columns where you didnât get enough pointsâ.
So my guess is that even if there was literally the same position at GiveWell and the UK Civil Service it would be substantially easier to give feedback for the civil service one (which of course doesnât necessarily mean that GW shouldnât give feedback, just that they are meaningfully different reference classes).