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It's especially important now that companies tell us about their process so that we can compare and expedite, including how many: - technical phone screens -

It's especially important now that companies tell us about their process so that we can compare and expedite, including how many: - technical phone screens - video interviews / coding interviews - projects (esp. length and duration, paid/unpaid, etc) - portfolio / code reviews on past projects - onsite interviews and if there's any whiteboarding or pairing, etc. [note: we'll assume these are virtual now] - will the position stay remote or do you plan on making it in-person? As well as the total amount of time you expect interviewing to take! Thanks :)

y-c-o-m-b 7y ago
Thank you, this is very important! There was a job I applied to with a very long interview process and I backed out. Had I known in advance, I wouldn't have applied and wasted their time and mine. EDIT: Removed unnecessary rant
- anticsapp 7y ago
  I wish there was a unreddit undelete so I could read your rant. I had this elite headhunter who LinkedIn messaged me but he doesn't do phone calls. So I go to his office on my one half day. It looked like Met Art. He had the perfect job for me and 10 more if it didn't work out. Did he ghost me? No, I just forgot about him and he forgot about me. No followup. Then this February he LinkedIn messages me for a totally inappropriate VP role and the text of the intro was the same message. This millionaire is just C + P spamming. I insisted on a five minute phone call before meeting him for the first time. We spoke on the phone and I tore him a new asshole.
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jamespollack 7y ago
@HN - is there a reason why this was moved to the bottom of the comments list? everything else seems to be chronological and this post has 51 upvotes when i'm posting this. will you consider expanding your rules to make sure that companies include some information on these topics?
- dang 7y ago
  Past experience is that meta posts about how the hiring threads should be organized, what the posts should say, how companies should comport themselves, etc., tend to take over the thread if allowed to, so we treat them as off topic.
  - jamespollack 7y ago
    @dang Righto - so will you consider asking companies to include some of this information? It's basically impossible to compare job opportunities without it. If you see two similar postings, but one has a 6 week process with unpaid projects and the other is 3 weeks with whiteboarding and past project reviews, it really helps with your job search to be able to compare. Without this information, we're all flying blind.
    - dang 7y ago
      Yes, I'd consider that as part of doing some more systematic work on the Who Is Hiring threads, and on the whole HN approach to jobs and hiring in general. It could all clearly be done in a way that was more valuable to everyone, probably an order of magnitude more valuable, which would be a nontrivial thing. This is definitely near the top of our list of long-term intentions. It's not at the top, though. First there are some major technical projects that need to get out. Those should enable a next version of the API. After that I'd say the hiring stuff is probably #1.
      - jamespollack 7y ago
        Thanks for the response. Appreciate that you're working on it. Good luck. Let me know if you want some help :)

y-c-o-m-b 7y ago

Thank you, this is very important! There was a job I applied to with a very long interview process and I backed out. Had I known in advance, I wouldn't have applied and wasted their time and mine. EDIT: Removed unnecessary rant

anticsapp 7y ago
I wish there was a unreddit undelete so I could read your rant. I had this elite headhunter who LinkedIn messaged me but he doesn't do phone calls. So I go to his office on my one half day. It looked like Met Art. He had the perfect job for me and 10 more if it didn't work out. Did he ghost me? No, I just forgot about him and he forgot about me. No followup. Then this February he LinkedIn messages me for a totally inappropriate VP role and the text of the intro was the same message. This millionaire is just C + P spamming. I insisted on a five minute phone call before meeting him for the first time. We spoke on the phone and I tore him a new asshole.

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jamespollack 7y ago

@HN - is there a reason why this was moved to the bottom of the comments list? everything else seems to be chronological and this post has 51 upvotes when i'm posting this. will you consider expanding your rules to make sure that companies include some information on these topics?

dang 7y ago
Past experience is that meta posts about how the hiring threads should be organized, what the posts should say, how companies should comport themselves, etc., tend to take over the thread if allowed to, so we treat them as off topic.
- jamespollack 7y ago
  @dang Righto - so will you consider asking companies to include some of this information? It's basically impossible to compare job opportunities without it. If you see two similar postings, but one has a 6 week process with unpaid projects and the other is 3 weeks with whiteboarding and past project reviews, it really helps with your job search to be able to compare. Without this information, we're all flying blind.
  - dang 7y ago
    Yes, I'd consider that as part of doing some more systematic work on the Who Is Hiring threads, and on the whole HN approach to jobs and hiring in general. It could all clearly be done in a way that was more valuable to everyone, probably an order of magnitude more valuable, which would be a nontrivial thing. This is definitely near the top of our list of long-term intentions. It's not at the top, though. First there are some major technical projects that need to get out. Those should enable a next version of the API. After that I'd say the hiring stuff is probably #1.
    - jamespollack 7y ago
      Thanks for the response. Appreciate that you're working on it. Good luck. Let me know if you want some help :)