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You're absolutely right. Unfortunately the broken-ness of the interview process is not limited to the interview itself. I've interviewed around 40-50 folks fo
by ghettoimp 6y ago
You're absolutely right. Unfortunately the broken-ness of the interview process is not limited to the interview itself.
I've interviewed around 40-50 folks for $role at $wildly_successful_megacorp.
My qualifications: zero training, zero oversight.
I'm getting a lot better and more consistent. But I have still left a lot of interviews thinking how poorly I have done, and needing to reflect on how things could have gone differently.
It's very easy to think of interviewing folks as a chore or merely a favor to $other_manager. For something so vital to the long term health of the company, it's really appalling how little effort is put into it.
- ethbro 6y agoI think it's because anyone qualified to interview is probably qualified to do valuable work. And so companies turn that around and say "Let's take our best and brightest, and have them interview candidates! Then we'll select the best candidates!" But it's the same research / teaching faculty problem, where one skillset does not imply the other.
- novok 6y agoInterviewing is a skill, and some of the very productive can be very bad at it.