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"Let's compare: the first three declined offers took two weeks to respond to me. Stack Exchange took two minutes." I was job-hunting recently (also looking to

• kylec 15y ago
  Indeed. I, too, was recently job hunting and accepted a job offer a few days ago. I had met the hiring manager before so I was automatically moved along to the phone interview step once I expressed interest in the position, and I had an on-site interview followed by a job offer just over a week later. Because it was generous, I decided to immediately accept. Meanwhile, other companies I had submitted stuff to around the same time were just getting around to asking me to do phone interviews, and I had to tell them that I had already accepted an offer at another company. It's possible that I would have liked some of these companies even more than the one I'm going to be working at, or their offers might have been even more generous, but they missed out because they didn't act quickly enough.
• arupchak 14y ago
  Smart companies understand that good candidates are rarely on the job market for more than a few weeks (if at all). The recruiting speed of a company is usually indicative of their overall speed.