While that isn&#x27;t true in my hiring experience as well, it&#x27;s very true that, in general, people will trip over themselves for a chance to anonymously pass negative &quot;honest&quot; judgement on others. Especially if the person passing judgement has a position of prestige or power, i.e. it&#x27;s a hiring manager in a company that just IPO&#x27;d.<p>Another way of saying this is that any potentially negative detail on a resume will be invariably perceived as negative by someone. Not because it&#x27;s right but because people are people.