> Do you think HR runs background checks before or after the team greenlights a candidate? No idea how it is at all companies ever, but i can tell you about th

> Do you think HR runs background checks before or after the team greenlights a candidate? No idea how it is at all companies ever, but i can tell you about the ones I worked at. At both, I was asked to do the background check after i already signed the offer and started work, so after the team greenlighted me (obviously). At the first one I got the results back during my 2nd week of work, at the second one i got it back during week 1. HR definitely checked it after, because they requested certain documentation to prove my previous employment with my previous company. Because the previous company i worked for was merged into another one, so it technically didn't exist anymore, and they couldn't verify with them that I indeed used to be employed by them.