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Yes, it's standard to have an initial screen and then a day of five interviews (e.g. 3 coding, one system design, one behavioral).
by endtime 5y ago
Yes, it's standard to have an initial screen and then a day of five interviews (e.g. 3 coding, one system design, one behavioral).
- jon-wood 5y agoI really don't get how this has become the standard, on the team I hire for we do two interviews - one introductory conversation, and a technical interview. After that we're either going to hire you or we aren't, it really doesn't take much more than that to get an idea of whether somebody knows what they're doing or not. The trend for running multiple multi-day interviews is a waste of the candidates time, and its even more of a waste of your teams time because for every candidate they're now having to take out hours on end to go through the motions of interviewing. I find it painful getting 20 minutes into a 90 minute interview and knowing that the candidate isn't going to be getting a job, I can't imagine having to string that along for a full day.
- endtime 5y agoI think the idea is that a candidate might have a bad interview or not click with a given interviewer, and so doing a few interviews averages this effect out a bit. At least at Google, every interviewer has their history and overall calibration tracked, where the calibration is, I believe, something to do with how much your scores match the other interviewers' scores. This is probably fairer overall, albeit more expensive for the company and the candidate.