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thanks, this is really helpful. over the course of my career i've become highly attuned to what are obvious hiccups in the interview process and i take them int

thanks, this is really helpful. over the course of my career i've become highly attuned to what are obvious hiccups in the interview process and i take them into consideration. but it's times when things are genuinely up in the air that i have more difficulty in assessing the situation (such is life i suppose). i see how the idea of establishing any sort of an agreed upon response interval, however casual or imprecise, can provide some anchoring for both parties. in a past job, i realized my boss had not wanted to hire me and had effectively been overriden by someone further up the org chart -- it cast the interviews and phone calls i'd had in an entirely new light, and is part of what has prompted me to soberly evaluate every step of the interview/onboard process during job hops now.

kafkaesq 10y ago
That was what was key for me to understand, also (when I started to research this a bit, and ask other people about their experiences): both that the process has gotten weirder, and that one seems to have to go through 3x as many rounds of it, these days. Interestingly, I once had someone override me about hiring someone I recommended a pass on, and that person turned to be quite good. Not that this should be done lightly. But that experienced caused me to step back a bit, and look at how I was making snap judgements about people (and yes, perhaps letting the authority of deciding others' fate go to my head a bit).