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To add anecdata to your post here, in the height of the hiring craze last year, I accepted an "above-market" (from my perspective) offer from a company called P
by neon_electro 4y ago
To add anecdata to your post here, in the height of the hiring craze last year, I accepted an "above-market" (from my perspective) offer from a company called Provi. They took less than a week from initial recruiter call to offer.
Fast forward to this past February, and I'm being let go for "performance reasons", but it's a lot clearer in retrospect that I should've been failed out of their interview process if it was any good, and that seeking to hire someone within a week is now sort of a yellow flag for me.
I want to move fast, but I also want my counter-party to do proper due diligence.
- JamesBarney 4y agoWhat do you think they should have asked you that would have properly filtered you out?
- neon_electro 4y agoI don't know - isn't that the employer's problem, not mine? I was let go two weeks after they acquired a competitor. They claimed it was my performance that was the reason I was being let go, but when you have zero "negative performance" conversations with your manager despite having regular weekly/semi-weekly 1-1s, it's clear to me "performance" was not the driving issue.
- mejutoco 4y agoHow long did it take them to let you go?
- neon_electro 4y agoI was there four months in total. They acquired a competitor two weeks before I was let go. I can connect the dots.
- Firmwarrior 4y agoAre you sure that wasn't a spot of impostor syndrome? Or do you think it was just a bad culture fit?
- neon_electro 4y agoThey acquired a competitor, doubling their headcount. Two weeks later, I was being let go.