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I’ve found this advice to be far too prevalent and largely unrealistic. Nearly everything about the interview process is out of your control. Getting multiple,
by SkyPuncher 3y ago
I’ve found this advice to be far too prevalent and largely unrealistic. Nearly everything about the interview process is out of your control. Getting multiple, competing offers to line up is extremely hard.
It’s basically like saying “you win a race by being the fastest”. No duh! How you be the fastest is the hardest part.
- viking123 3y agoYeah it is so difficult to align these. I had two interview loops going and the other company was my clear favorite but the loop took like 2 months while the other was two weeks. So what I ended up doing is that I took the first job and now in a month or so I am going to quit and move to the other. It sucks but I literally had no other way because I cannot predict the result of the other interview and I cannot ask the other to wait freaking two months
- knallfrosch 3y agoIt's uncomfortable, but possible. In other domains, you might not be able switch from one choice to the other at all. I find that thought calming.
- bomewish 3y agoWow, that doesn't seem right.
- fishtoaster 3y agoIs it really? Maybe it depends on your market, but I've been able to do it... pretty much every time over the last 12 years. You apply to a bunch of places over ~2 weeks, then try to get the slow ones to speed up and/or the fast ones to slow down. If you've got an offer and are waiting to hear back from a few other companies, you can usually just say that and the first offer will wait a week or two.