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>Most employees are at will, so we can quickly get rid of them if they aren't a fit. While this is technically true, it's ridiculous to think most employers th
by warrenm 9y ago
>Most employees are at will, so we can quickly get rid of them if they aren't a fit.
While this is technically true, it's ridiculous to think most employers think this way. Onboarding costs (from placing ads to interviewing to extending offers to actually hiring to getting equipment issued to getting people signed up for all the crap they need to get signed up for to training etc) is MASSIVELY expensive.
A day of interviewing costs not only the flight & hotel for the candidate (presuming they're from out of town), but also the lost work time for everyone involved as interviewers.
- Y7ZCQtNo39 9y agoLet's say you get brought on, and it's clear that you aren't a fit in the first two weeks. They still have the rolodex of other candidates they picked -- they could easily extend an offer to #2. Flight + hotel should not be a deal breaker for a well-funded business or one with access to a lot of capital. If you're bootstrapping, it could be an issue, but I don't think those startups tend to hire people out of town.
- warrenm 9y ago>they could easily extend an offer to #2 And #2 could easily have already accepted elsewhere. Or otherwise no longer be interested. Hiring is HARD. And doing it not poorly is often the biggest hope: hiring well is exceptionally difficult - a couple hours of forced interaction in a manner that will never happen again is a pisspoor way of doing it.