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Companies these days expend way too much energy interviewing people, and people then fail to prepare for the interviews or communicate internally afterwards. Wh

Companies these days expend way too much energy interviewing people, and people then fail to prepare for the interviews or communicate internally afterwards. When I went for interviews I hated it when people did not even read my resume and sometimes did not even know what position it was for. Companies demand so many interviews from their existing people that they become jaded and no longer care. I once went for an interview as a contractor and they scheduled 8 consecutive interviews in a row. Half never showed up, or asked the same lame questions. Also what they were looking for was actually different than what they had told me, so I flew to another city (they paid) for nothing. I didn't get (or want) the job. Good thing too, a month later the entire division was shut down.

Johnny555 6y ago
Companies these days expend way too much energy interviewing people The only thing that wastes more time than interviews is hiring the wrong person. Many companies take interviewing seriously, my company meets before each interview to go over the candidate's resume and discuss what we each want to talk to the candidate about. Then we have a debrief after the interview. Anyone can veto a candidate for any reason and only candidates that get a majority vote to proceed move on to the next step. If everyone is lukewarm on the candidate, then he doesn't move to the next step. Interviews don't guarantee that you'll hire the right person, but do help screen out the wrong people -- like bad personality fit, insufficient knowledge of what they claim to know, etc Good thing too, a month later the entire division was shut down. Perhaps your experience at a failing division was not typical at this company
- colmvp 6y ago
  Yes. FWIW, I've been in the recent position of not making it past multiple rounds with top tier companies. And of course, it hurts to get rejected. A mentor of mine essentially said to me it's not personal, think of how much each of those engineers are making and how much it costs to interview you. If you didn't leave a great impression (and I fully admit that I wasn't on my game), it's cheaper to move on. A bad hire is very costly in terms of money/time/energy. At the end of the day, there's other opportunities. Plus, there's nothing that says given more time improving oneself, one can't land the opportunity they were looking for.
dudul 6y ago
> so I flew to another city (they paid) for nothing Remind me of the time when a company flew me to their office for a remote position to interview with the team, and 4 out of the 6 sessions were held over zoom because the interviewers were working from home that day. And then they ghosted me after telling me I was great.
- aahortwwy 6y ago
  I once conducted an on-site interview with a candidate for a software engineering position whose resume had no software engineering experience or education listed and who politely told me about five minutes into the interview that they couldn't design or write software. They weren't aware they were interviewing for a software engineering position. Despite multiple resume reviews and two phone interviews (one of which was supposedly technical) I was the first person to pick up on this. The company had paid for them to fly over from the east coast, too.

Johnny555 6y ago

Companies these days expend way too much energy interviewing people The only thing that wastes more time than interviews is hiring the wrong person. Many companies take interviewing seriously, my company meets before each interview to go over the candidate's resume and discuss what we each want to talk to the candidate about. Then we have a debrief after the interview. Anyone can veto a candidate for any reason and only candidates that get a majority vote to proceed move on to the next step. If everyone is lukewarm on the candidate, then he doesn't move to the next step. Interviews don't guarantee that you'll hire the right person, but do help screen out the wrong people -- like bad personality fit, insufficient knowledge of what they claim to know, etc Good thing too, a month later the entire division was shut down. Perhaps your experience at a failing division was not typical at this company

colmvp 6y ago
Yes. FWIW, I've been in the recent position of not making it past multiple rounds with top tier companies. And of course, it hurts to get rejected. A mentor of mine essentially said to me it's not personal, think of how much each of those engineers are making and how much it costs to interview you. If you didn't leave a great impression (and I fully admit that I wasn't on my game), it's cheaper to move on. A bad hire is very costly in terms of money/time/energy. At the end of the day, there's other opportunities. Plus, there's nothing that says given more time improving oneself, one can't land the opportunity they were looking for.

dudul 6y ago

> so I flew to another city (they paid) for nothing Remind me of the time when a company flew me to their office for a remote position to interview with the team, and 4 out of the 6 sessions were held over zoom because the interviewers were working from home that day. And then they ghosted me after telling me I was great.

aahortwwy 6y ago
I once conducted an on-site interview with a candidate for a software engineering position whose resume had no software engineering experience or education listed and who politely told me about five minutes into the interview that they couldn't design or write software. They weren't aware they were interviewing for a software engineering position. Despite multiple resume reviews and two phone interviews (one of which was supposedly technical) I was the first person to pick up on this. The company had paid for them to fly over from the east coast, too.