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Wait, they have SEVEN distinct interviews? Meet/greet, general, tech assessment, recruiter, role, manager, senior leader? Holy shit. Wow. That’s insane. What

Wait, they have SEVEN distinct interviews? Meet/greet, general, tech assessment, recruiter, role, manager, senior leader? Holy shit. Wow. That’s insane. What a waste of everybody’s time.

sosodev 4y ago
So many tech companies are bloating the interview process with seven or more interviews. For my current role I did several interviews and the record during my most recent cycle was ten IIRC. The particularly annoying part is that most of the time the rounds are almost complete duplicates of each other just with a different person. edit: I just checked my calendar and I had nine meetings/interviews with Cruise before they rejected me.
- alistairSH 4y ago
  That’s insane. FWIW, our normal process is 4 interviews… phone screen with the recruiter, 1 interview with hiring manager, a live tech screen (could be another manager, could be a senior IC), and a quick chat with director or VP. We try to get a candidate through to offer/decline within a week. I really can’t see the additional value of additional rounds of interviews.
gurchik 4y ago
At my current job, I did about the same number of interviews. Not counting an initial 15 minute screening call, I had a 30 minute phone call with two of the engineers on the team, a technical panel interview, and 3 exec interviews. So that's six interviews. I would be working with all of these people directly and I wanted to avoid "broken stair" coworkers I have had in the past. While I found this valuable, I didn't feel the same way about the Canonical process and refused to proceed. Each stage of an interview process needs to provide value to both sides. As a candidate, a personality test or an essay does not help me at all except to raise a red flag. And speaking to many people who I might never speak to again is useless to me.
- alistairSH 4y ago
  If you interviewed 3 executives, I’m assuming your senior leadership yourself. Or, at an actual start-up where the execs are still doing IC tasks. I can see the need for a higher bar in either case. But for an average developer at an average company? That just sounds insane to me.

Wait, they have SEVEN distinct interviews? Meet/greet, general, tech assessment, recruiter, role, manager, senior leader? Holy shit. Wow. That’s insane. What a waste of everybody’s time.

sosodev 4y ago

So many tech companies are bloating the interview process with seven or more interviews. For my current role I did several interviews and the record during my most recent cycle was ten IIRC. The particularly annoying part is that most of the time the rounds are almost complete duplicates of each other just with a different person. edit: I just checked my calendar and I had nine meetings/interviews with Cruise before they rejected me.

alistairSH 4y ago
That’s insane. FWIW, our normal process is 4 interviews… phone screen with the recruiter, 1 interview with hiring manager, a live tech screen (could be another manager, could be a senior IC), and a quick chat with director or VP. We try to get a candidate through to offer/decline within a week. I really can’t see the additional value of additional rounds of interviews.

gurchik 4y ago

At my current job, I did about the same number of interviews. Not counting an initial 15 minute screening call, I had a 30 minute phone call with two of the engineers on the team, a technical panel interview, and 3 exec interviews. So that's six interviews. I would be working with all of these people directly and I wanted to avoid "broken stair" coworkers I have had in the past. While I found this valuable, I didn't feel the same way about the Canonical process and refused to proceed. Each stage of an interview process needs to provide value to both sides. As a candidate, a personality test or an essay does not help me at all except to raise a red flag. And speaking to many people who I might never speak to again is useless to me.

alistairSH 4y ago
If you interviewed 3 executives, I’m assuming your senior leadership yourself. Or, at an actual start-up where the execs are still doing IC tasks. I can see the need for a higher bar in either case. But for an average developer at an average company? That just sounds insane to me.