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>They hope that if they wasted you 6-10 hours of your time before an actual offer then you'd make a decision based on the sunk cost fallacy You might be overth

by slg 6y ago

>They hope that if they wasted you 6-10 hours of your time before an actual offer then you'd make a decision based on the sunk cost fallacy You might be overthinking this. I doubt many companies really have this viewpoint for the simple fact that falling for this is a trait of a bad employee. You don't want to actively select your employees based on their flawed decision making process.

pdimitar 6y ago
I definitely could be overthinking it and I said the part you quoted kind of out of spite as well. But there are bad employers out there, be sure of it. Some of them definitely do employ that tactic. Might be unconsciously but they do. They definitely lack the self-awareness to know what does it mean to hire a bad employee. They kind of just go through the motions. One skill I never wanted to have but gradually developed pretty well was to recognize early such employers and bail out.
- slg 6y ago
  I totally agree with you that some employers are downright bad and that how a company runs an interview process is indicative of how they run everything. I have turned down multiple interviews and a job offer before because I was soured by how a company operated that process. I just don't think the reason for those bad processes is necessarily nefarious. Hanlon's razor and all.
Viliam1234 6y ago
Technically, company is not a single mind that could have a viewpoint on something. It is a group of people, who sometimes have different incentives. Maybe someone's incentives make this a good strategy, even if it is harmful for the company as a whole in long term. I don't know how exactly people in HR are rewarded, but I have noticed a few situations where the company had a generous salary range in mind, but HR fought against mentioning it. It didn't make sense from the company perspective, because the company wanted the people, and the salary was above market average so the potential candidates would have liked it too. The resistence of HR makes me suspect that their incentives didn't align with the company interest, but I have no idea how specifically.

by slg 6y ago

pdimitar 6y ago

I definitely could be overthinking it and I said the part you quoted kind of out of spite as well. But there are bad employers out there, be sure of it. Some of them definitely do employ that tactic. Might be unconsciously but they do. They definitely lack the self-awareness to know what does it mean to hire a bad employee. They kind of just go through the motions. One skill I never wanted to have but gradually developed pretty well was to recognize early such employers and bail out.

slg 6y ago
I totally agree with you that some employers are downright bad and that how a company runs an interview process is indicative of how they run everything. I have turned down multiple interviews and a job offer before because I was soured by how a company operated that process. I just don't think the reason for those bad processes is necessarily nefarious. Hanlon's razor and all.

Viliam1234 6y ago

Technically, company is not a single mind that could have a viewpoint on something. It is a group of people, who sometimes have different incentives. Maybe someone's incentives make this a good strategy, even if it is harmful for the company as a whole in long term. I don't know how exactly people in HR are rewarded, but I have noticed a few situations where the company had a generous salary range in mind, but HR fought against mentioning it. It didn't make sense from the company perspective, because the company wanted the people, and the salary was above market average so the potential candidates would have liked it too. The resistence of HR makes me suspect that their incentives didn't align with the company interest, but I have no idea how specifically.