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Not the main topic of the article, but in my opinion an interview/discussion also is supposed to answer another (third) question: Does the company fulfill the e
by metters 5y ago
Not the main topic of the article, but in my opinion an interview/discussion also is supposed to answer another (third) question:
Does the company fulfill the expectations of the potential employee?
Not only the candidate has to sell their own service/skill during the interview/discussion, the company is being evaluated, too.
- cema 5y agoOne of the business for interviewers our company has is to leave a good impression even on a weak candidate. This makes for an overall better experience and, should the candidate become a better fit in the future, we do not want to lose them.
- cema 5y agoOne of the "goals" not business but ok.
- amirkdv 5y agoThis so much. This would be on the syllabus of the missing Employment 101 course. Very few people I've seen try to evaluate the company as much as they're being evaluated. We all grow up with the false, ingrained assumption that it's some sort of one-way privilege for you, the employee, to rent your time/body/mind to the employer.
- midasuni 5y agoThat’s because in most interviews for most people the company holds far more power than the applicant. For those who have done well in tech and don’t need to take the next job offered to pay for the next months food bill, because they have the savings, because they have 2 or 3 offers already, we may have the luxury of interviewing the company. Most people aren’t in that situation, especially early in the career