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I have a hard time believing that companies trying to pretend they are significantly larger than they are in hopes of snagging some super-special hire is a comm
by skookum 10y ago
I have a hard time believing that companies trying to pretend they are significantly larger than they are in hopes of snagging some super-special hire is a common thing. It seems like the sort of thing that would backfire quickly. I would quit on the first day if I arrived to discover a scenario like you've described - but to be honest I'd probably detect much earlier in the process and never arrive in the first place.
It's also worth noting that the reverse direction of this false-hope scenario does occur frequently: It's extremely common in our industry for candidates to take interviews with companies they would never accept an offer from just to practice their interview skills for later interviews with companies they actually do want to work at.
- busterarm 10y agoThey're trying to appear larger because they think that it either makes them look better to investors or to customers. I think it always backfires in any case, but most of these people don't have very much, if any, experience running a successful business.
- wott 10y agoWhen a visitor would come, my boss would arrange fake working stations, with piles of files which were in fact white paper, and he would pretend the ghost-employees were on vacation, or on an outside mission. I have also applied to many job offers I am pretty sure were fake, with no actual position behind.