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It is usually very easy to criticize and not provide any alternative solutions. How should a company process 1000 resumes with a meaningful effort and find cand
by s5ma6n 7y ago
It is usually very easy to criticize and not provide any alternative solutions. How should a company process 1000 resumes with a meaningful effort and find candidates to be called for an on-site interview?
If you think a single on-site interview of a candidate, it usually takes a few hours of multiple people from every segment of the company (mgmt, development, HR). Everybody has to prepare beforehand for some time for these interviews as well. So in the end, every on-site interview is costly for a company.
As an engineer, I dislike attending on-site interviews to hire people because I see it as a time that is not used optimally.
Finally, IMHO, the solution is to provide both standard-track and fast-track interviews where exceptional (on paper) candidates can be called directly for an interview and regular candidates would have multi-stage interviews.
- varjag 7y agoIf you send out a 1000 4-hour take home tests as a screen and 100 people took upon it, you just wasted 396 man-hours of other people time. Creating a bunch of frustration, disappointment, and unnecessarily accelerating heat death of the Universe.
- fennecfoxen 7y agoOutside of Madoka Magica (2011), it's pretty safe to say that no human activities we undertake today will have any impact on the heat death of the universe whatsoever.
- femiagbabiaka 7y agoFast tracks for interviews already exist, and they’re not good for the industry. They usually result in a pool of people shuffling from high paid job to job regardless of their competence, all on the basis of who they know. Making it an open industry standard would be disastrous. An alternative: don’t give coding interviews.
- nostrebored 7y agoHiring is absolutely one of the best uses of your time in any reasonable environment. If we're considering hiring for a position with the same expectations as your position, unless that time you've spent nearly doubles long term efficiency over the hours you spend to fill the position, it's easy to see why it's a good use of your time.
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- altmind 7y agolimit the number of interviews and only allow the immediate peers and managers to the interview? the people interviewing should be interested in a good candidate. that's enough.