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It's because the company has the leverage. If they terminate an interview early, they leave one person with a bad impression. If you terminate the interview ear

It's because the company has the leverage. If they terminate an interview early, they leave one person with a bad impression. If you terminate the interview early, you leave however many people are participating in the interview with a bad impression. Relatedly, the 2003 documentary "The Corporation" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corporation_(film) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corporation_(film)) makes the case that if corporations are "people", they fit the psychopath personality type. Non-psychopathic people have a sense of empathy, a personality trait that corporations lack.

jseliger 14y ago
The movie was silly: it painted corporations as evil while completely ignoring the problems that the corporation as a legal form was invented to solve. A grad seminar actually assigned it, and when I pointed out some of its flaws—like saying all corporations just have to make money, when many kinds of corporations need to do what their shareholders want them to—everyone was stumped. Had anyone read Coase? No. Sigh. See http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/20400301508/cs183class1 http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/20400301508/cs183class1 and Coase's essay "The Nature of the Firm" for more on why they exist.
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antidoh 14y ago
If a company terminates an interview early it might leave a bad impression with the employees who participated in the interview. And you have to work with those people tomorrow.
- richardjordan 14y ago
  Nah, happens all the time. They just say the candidate wasn't up to it. Existing employees' vanity works as a defense against disbelieving the company line here - they must be special to have been hired, after all, not booted early like that donkey of a candidate.
  - antidoh 14y ago
    Maybe. I know if I was sitting in a room where the manager did this I'd be embarrassed. As another poster pointed out, an interviewee can usually profit from sticking out the interview, maybe learn something (even if it's learning what people don't know). At the least it's practice at suffering fools. Same from the other side of the table. Most people don't know how to interview candidates; you all know this, because you've all sat through clueless interviews. But those people (you, if you've ever interviewed a candidate) are usually competent and nice people, they just don't have that particular skill or experience. So follow through, do the whole interview, because you need the practice. You've brought an expensive learning resource into the office, so learn from him. Finally, there's nothing wrong with being gracious and leaving the candidate with a positive view of your company and of you. Maybe he'll treat the experience like "dang, I've got some stuff to learn," rather than "those dudes are poopy heads." In any case it's as good for you to be gracious as it is for the candidate.

jseliger 14y ago

The movie was silly: it painted corporations as evil while completely ignoring the problems that the corporation as a legal form was invented to solve. A grad seminar actually assigned it, and when I pointed out some of its flaws—like saying all corporations just have to make money, when many kinds of corporations need to do what their shareholders want them to—everyone was stumped. Had anyone read Coase? No. Sigh. See http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/20400301508/cs183class1 http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/20400301508/cs183class1 and Coase's essay "The Nature of the Firm" for more on why they exist.

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antidoh 14y ago

If a company terminates an interview early it might leave a bad impression with the employees who participated in the interview. And you have to work with those people tomorrow.

richardjordan 14y ago
Nah, happens all the time. They just say the candidate wasn't up to it. Existing employees' vanity works as a defense against disbelieving the company line here - they must be special to have been hired, after all, not booted early like that donkey of a candidate.
- antidoh 14y ago
  Maybe. I know if I was sitting in a room where the manager did this I'd be embarrassed. As another poster pointed out, an interviewee can usually profit from sticking out the interview, maybe learn something (even if it's learning what people don't know). At the least it's practice at suffering fools. Same from the other side of the table. Most people don't know how to interview candidates; you all know this, because you've all sat through clueless interviews. But those people (you, if you've ever interviewed a candidate) are usually competent and nice people, they just don't have that particular skill or experience. So follow through, do the whole interview, because you need the practice. You've brought an expensive learning resource into the office, so learn from him. Finally, there's nothing wrong with being gracious and leaving the candidate with a positive view of your company and of you. Maybe he'll treat the experience like "dang, I've got some stuff to learn," rather than "those dudes are poopy heads." In any case it's as good for you to be gracious as it is for the candidate.