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It would be crazy if the candidate had been working for you for 30+ years, but different companies have different standards and different people gain experience
by cpitman 11y ago
It would be crazy if the candidate had been working for you for 30+ years, but different companies have different standards and different people gain experience at different rates and/or stop learning.
For example, I interviewed one guy to become the Tech Lead for a client's SaaS initiatives. He had a lot of experience, but it was all experience with mainframes. And it showed in how he approached technical/architectural scenarios. Especially for senior/tech leads, you don't want to have to retrain them.
- 7Figures2Commas 11y agoHow in the world did somebody with decades of mainframe experience wind up in an interview for a SaaS tech lead? On the surface, it sounds like there was a fairly obvious misalignment between the candidate's experience and the experience required by the role. Somebody like this almost certainly should have been filtered out at the resume review stage or in a phone screen. There is no reason a company should be investing staff time in an in-person interview before it has a clear understanding about a candidate's experience.