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In the current company where I have been working for last 9 years and this year it will be 10, I have taken so far interview of more than 350 people for my team
by bobbydreamer 6y ago
In the current company where I have been working for last 9 years and this year it will be 10, I have taken so far interview of more than 350 people for my team, this is my second company. All interviews were by phone and I spend minimum 30 mins, if they are bad and 45 to 60mins if they are good.
In the beginning some team members thought taking interview was a pride. I wasn't taking any at that time. Later I got the job of doing it, HR sends the resume to my TL and he passes to me. Before the interview as a prep I google the guy and see if he has a blog or has any linkedin profile. Then I go on with the interview, 50% of questions I ask are from the work the person has put in his resume only. Other 50% are work we have in the team.
After having interviewed 30 people, I started guessing some are fakes, to confirm my guess, I push the person of second round technical interview which my team lead takes. Almost 100% of guess we're right. But at that time, I didn't know or thought about there would be people faking the interviews regularly. I have encountered twins fraud in my previous company that was shocking. During the interview, I hear turning pages, asking to repeat the question 3 to 4 times, could hear typing and clicking. Questions related to same subject is answered fast but different subject and going back to earlier subject responses were slow.
I started to setup the interview question like fundamental then based on experience. Worst part was, when I see some resume with person from top sort ivy league colleges, I get excited to interview them as I assume, they will be brilliant. One time, I had got such a resume, so I took my TL and one extra person as well to a conference room for interview, to say he was a gold medalist, I lost hope on gold medalists after that. It was quite a funny interview.
Out of 350, almost 250 were fakes. After knowing they were fake in 10-15 mins I still proceed to take interview to know what subject they are good in just to know as experience varies. On the last feedback just say where they have to improve on.
Worse thing is, when you find someone and hire them, they leave too soon due to pressure they say. Too much work.
I never take an interview during a burnout as this is a person's career. That's something serious.
But I have heard from friends and other places. People do hire persons based on caste, state, religion. Them being hired at high salary as well. I hear a lots of frustrations. I can't say anything other than THIS IS INDIA. There are people like that and it's hard to report or confront.