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Many years ago I interviewed at a FAANG and the VP who interviewed me over a (fairly crappy, 30-minute) lunch was really a pain, enough so I didn't want to work
by biztos 7y ago
Many years ago I interviewed at a FAANG and the VP who interviewed me over a (fairly crappy, 30-minute) lunch was really a pain, enough so I didn't want to work for him. The feeling was mutual.
Turned out he did 500 interviews a year. Five hundred. Unless that's your entire job, I don't see how you could come out of that without becoming an asshole.
- perl4ever 7y ago500 lunch interviews in a year seems like it's stretching it.
- cameronbrown 7y agoImagine how much weight you could gain doing that many lunch interviews.. yikes
- choppaface 7y agoAt a previous employer, managers were expected to do 200 per quarter (typically for 2-2.5 of the most active quarters). We were told it's better than Twitter where engineers did a minimum of 8 per week (and, allegedly, managers did even more). From my own experience, that sort of load undeniably turns evaluators into assholes. I think the main problem is that to see any return on investment (i.e. a 'successful' interview) it takes about a 6-12 months assuming the person is hired. Having to do such a repetitive task with such a dearth of feedback I think will make anybody go crazy. That's not even considering any imbalance between time spent on recruiting versus time spent on strategy or other management tasks.