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> Imagine you get a new job that pays half of what your last job did and then you get dismissed at the end of 3 months and have to restart your search. I'd tak
by lj3 10y ago
> Imagine you get a new job that pays half of what your last job did and then you get dismissed at the end of 3 months and have to restart your search.
I'd take that. You're still getting paid for your work instead of spending months searching with no income. It also gives you a chance to see who you're working with, who your boss is and the state of the code base you'll be spending the next several years of your life on. You don't get any of that in a whiteboard interview.
- watwut 10y agoThat form of interview would make company loose on employed applicants. It would also be expensive in case there are more applicants then positions - or you would be back to normal interviews. Also, imagine competing with multiple other people for three minths over which one will stay after three months and who will have to search again. I can easily see how toxic it all could become.
- nolemurs 10y agoI mean, this is fine if you're unemployed already. If you've got a job already though, I'm not sure quitting that for a lower paying multi-month interview process is terribly appealing. Most of the best candidates who can pick and choose jobs won't choose to do that, so a company requiring that is going to be really limiting their options.
- lj3 10y agoIf you already have a job, the likelihood you're going to go through the normal hiring channels is small anyway. There's no reason you couldn't have one hiring process for those you're trying to woo away from other companies and one hiring process for those who may have faced a layoff or whose startup just collapsed.
- taco_emoji 10y agoOr you just have one that works for both and save yourself a lot of headache?
- lj3 10y ago> Or you just have one that works for both And that is? > and save yourself a lot of headache? Which headache are you referring to?