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It is bewildering to me that there are companies where you don't interview with the team you will join. What if you don't click with them? These are the people

• shagie 3y ago
  What if you were at a company that had 100 teams with open spots to fill. They all need the same basic skill set and with some onboarding it will fill in gaps in the domain knowledge. Do you want to do 100 interviews? An interview with 100 people asking you questions? If you interview with the "wrong" team or someone else accepts a position with that team before you do, do you want to be dropped from consideration? That structure for interviewing is set up to try to find as many people who are {this good} as possible to hire. Once you get hired, then they'll try to figure out where you fit in. Trying to fit each person to their exactly right and best fit spot as part of the interview process makes it even more time consuming.
• fatnoah 3y ago
  > It is bewildering to me that there are companies where you don't interview with the team you will join. What if you don't click with them? These are the people you'll spend every day working with. There's a very important caveat here. At Facebook and Google (those are the ones I experienced) you have to pass a bar to get into the company. While those initial interviewers won't be the ones you work with you'll either (Google) go through team matching where you'll meet those team members or even better (Facebook) meet them AND work with them on a couple tasks to get to know them and their work BEFORE you join the team.