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 it’s easy to give feedback: you just screenshot your rubric and say “here are the columns where you didn’t get enough points”.
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 doesn’t necessarily mean that GW shouldn’t 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 it’s easy to give feedback: you just screenshot your rubric and say “here are the columns where you didn’t get enough points”.
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 doesn’t necessarily mean that GW shouldn’t give feedback, just that they are meaningfully different reference classes).