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>At one prominent tech company, I underwent 13 separate interviews for a single role. In what insane world does this make any amount of sense?

2f0ja 10mo ago
I went through a loop at Meta that was probably 10-11 rounds. I would have done 100. The compensation is truly life changing and the engineering problems were world-class. I'm sure OP is correct that this is a signal for a bad org - but from the outside looking in you'll do anything.
- zhach 10mo ago
  Author here. Very good point. I am in a lucky position for retrospective, but I was also very much in the mood of "I'll take what i can get" lol
- lbrito 10mo ago
  That's a huge privilege; most people don't have enough time for that
- gherkinnn 10mo ago
  Meta is truly changing the lives of millions and millions of people for the worse.
chihuahua 10mo ago
I did 13 interviews in 2 days at Microsoft Research (in 1998). I did not get the job.
userbinator 10mo ago
I see that as a manifestation of Buridan's Ass --- when they're very indecisive about it, they will naturally try to measure more.
20after4 10mo ago
It really doesn't make much sense. The article was actually insightful on this point, or at least this matches my experience: > it suggests they operate on a consensus-based model that stifles autonomy The one place where I experienced a lot of rounds of interviews (at least 8 interviews, I think) was at the Wikimedia Foundation. It's an organization that is very explicitly built on consensus-based decision making. There were many great things about working there and at first it was very different from typical corporate culture. In some ways it was stifling, at least for someone who isn't a savvy politician. By the time I left in 2021, they had fully adopted the same kind of leveling system as discussed here, with all of the same political and structural constraints on advancement.
wiseowise 10mo ago
In a world where clacking keyboard gets you 500k salary.
- n0t3ths81 10mo ago
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2f0ja 10mo ago

I went through a loop at Meta that was probably 10-11 rounds. I would have done 100. The compensation is truly life changing and the engineering problems were world-class. I'm sure OP is correct that this is a signal for a bad org - but from the outside looking in you'll do anything.

zhach 10mo ago
Author here. Very good point. I am in a lucky position for retrospective, but I was also very much in the mood of "I'll take what i can get" lol
lbrito 10mo ago
That's a huge privilege; most people don't have enough time for that
gherkinnn 10mo ago
Meta is truly changing the lives of millions and millions of people for the worse.

chihuahua 10mo ago

I did 13 interviews in 2 days at Microsoft Research (in 1998). I did not get the job.

userbinator 10mo ago

I see that as a manifestation of Buridan's Ass --- when they're very indecisive about it, they will naturally try to measure more.

20after4 10mo ago

It really doesn't make much sense. The article was actually insightful on this point, or at least this matches my experience: > it suggests they operate on a consensus-based model that stifles autonomy The one place where I experienced a lot of rounds of interviews (at least 8 interviews, I think) was at the Wikimedia Foundation. It's an organization that is very explicitly built on consensus-based decision making. There were many great things about working there and at first it was very different from typical corporate culture. In some ways it was stifling, at least for someone who isn't a savvy politician. By the time I left in 2021, they had fully adopted the same kind of leveling system as discussed here, with all of the same political and structural constraints on advancement.

wiseowise 10mo ago

In a world where clacking keyboard gets you 500k salary.

n0t3ths81 10mo ago
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