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Friend of mine got interviewed by a well known company down in the Bellevue area of Washington, for a role managing storage stuff, shortly after moving to the a

by Twirrim 11y ago

Friend of mine got interviewed by a well known company down in the Bellevue area of Washington, for a role managing storage stuff, shortly after moving to the area. They got him in 5 times over a month for interviews with various people, and eventually about 3-4 weeks after the final interview they offered him the job. They seemed very surprised when he laughed and told them they were too late, he'd got work elsewhere, as if they somehow expected him to sit around on his arse waiting for the job.

adam419 11y ago
Ebay? I'm curious to know the company if you're willing to share because I grew up in Bellevue and worked at a software company downtown there as well.
bane 11y ago
Yeah, lots of the companies seem to operate like engineers aren't in high demand virtually everywhere and that they offer some kind of special je-ne-sais-quoi that will convince qualified people to sit around for months while they make up their mind. I can say having been on the hiring-side of various companies for a while, most East Coast companies can go from looking at an application to hire inside a couple of weeks if they're slow, inside of a week if they're pretty well put together and can get enough people for interviews. It just simply doesn't take 5 interviews and two months to find somebody -- that's just ineptitude...and those companies' own internal metrics show all the process and hoops don't make much difference in final employee performance.
kamaal 11y ago
As a general rule you are better off not working at such places, because people there are generally so full of themselves. Growth, promotions, raises and other perks will come in a trickle unless you are a member of some political cartel in the company, because every one thinks they are special. Recruiting is worse of course, because they don't generally grant easy access to their elite club.

by Twirrim 11y ago

adam419 11y ago

Ebay? I'm curious to know the company if you're willing to share because I grew up in Bellevue and worked at a software company downtown there as well.

bane 11y ago

Yeah, lots of the companies seem to operate like engineers aren't in high demand virtually everywhere and that they offer some kind of special je-ne-sais-quoi that will convince qualified people to sit around for months while they make up their mind. I can say having been on the hiring-side of various companies for a while, most East Coast companies can go from looking at an application to hire inside a couple of weeks if they're slow, inside of a week if they're pretty well put together and can get enough people for interviews. It just simply doesn't take 5 interviews and two months to find somebody -- that's just ineptitude...and those companies' own internal metrics show all the process and hoops don't make much difference in final employee performance.

kamaal 11y ago

As a general rule you are better off not working at such places, because people there are generally so full of themselves. Growth, promotions, raises and other perks will come in a trickle unless you are a member of some political cartel in the company, because every one thinks they are special. Recruiting is worse of course, because they don't generally grant easy access to their elite club.