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Wow. I live in Sweden, and I have the same expectations: I would not really want to spend much time on an interview process, and I have never, ever heard of day
by sandos 8y ago
Wow. I live in Sweden, and I have the same expectations: I would not really want to spend much time on an interview process, and I have never, ever heard of day-long interviews either!
We have had a perpetual shortage of developers though, it sounds much harder to land a job in the US.
- scarejunba 8y agoTo clarify, full day means 4 sessions of an hour each bridged by lunch (1 hr). The hope is to give the candidate sufficient information about the team while the team gathers info about the candidate.
- ghaff 8y agoThat sounds pretty typical. In practice, it's not unusual to do one or more of the interviews by video because of travel schedules but four "in person" interviews is probably the norm.
- scarejunba 8y agoYeah, that’s how I understood it, but there’s often opposition on HN to that process.
- ghaff 8y agoI guess if you're hiring junior people to stick in a standardized box, it's mostly just a numbers game. Way back when I got a job offer out of school strictly based on my resume (took another job). But even when the interview process was mostly a formality because I knew many of the people and they knew my work, I still had some on-site interviews. I'm pretty sure on-site interviews are the norm for the vast majority of professional jobs. Including, or perhaps especially, for the most senior positions.
- mcv 8y agoNetherland here. Interviews take an hour. I don't think I've ever had a full-day interview, though I may have had two interviews in a row. Not sure if they were two half-hour or two full-hour interviews. I have had an on-site assessment of some sort many years ago. Didn't like it much. I'd much rather do a take-home test than spend a full day getting grilled in interviews.