They’re not trying to hire talent. They’re trying to hire people who will do whatever you tell them to do.
Before Amazon was as big as it is today, they approached me for a position. I had three different 1 hour interviews, then I found out they still expected me to fly to Seattle for 3 full days of interviews. I told them I was not interested. Before I knew much about corporate America, my gut told me that was a bad sign. Glad I listened.
During the pandemic, interviews seemed to have endless rounds of ridiculous questions. There needs to be a law that interviewers need to pay you at the position’s rate for anything beyond 2 hours. It would eliminate so much bullshit.
If the company can’t put the interviews into a single 3-hour visit, that’s a red flag to me. And even three hours is too long, should be an hour max, but whatever, I understand that the bosses all have busy schedules, so what can you do.
It’s really hard to get enough info in 1h. I’ve had several morning or afternoon interviews, though that felt comprehensive enough.
If there are more than 2 interviews, then the hiring process isn’t designed for you.
It’s designed to populate the schedules of other people so they can justify their positions. It’s a problem with increasingly larger portions of the corporate world.
Mine have all been 3. Phone screen, phone interview, and in-person.
Alot of it comes from every layer of management adding on shit. So HR wants a “Culture” interview, The org mandates a specific system design interview. Project manager wants to interview the high level candidate for leadership skills, then ontop of that the team itself wants a panel aswell as an interview for specific domain experience. Usually my company tries to group it all into one or two days
If it’s more than 2 it doesn’t matter. I already picked up another offer by the time you get around to finding a date.
Beyond 2 interviews, the point is not to test you. It is to make you feel small.
They get 2 interviews at most from me if there isn’t a panel or skills interview they told me about in that process. I had a prospective job try to schedule a 3rd general interview once, with no panel/skills in the process, and I asked them what more they needed to deliberate on. I heard them out about their reasoning and told them that it was clear to me they are wasting my time, hung up, and moved on. I’m not going to answer the same dipshit interview questions over and over for the same crap job that’s going to underpay and overwork me.
Right this is the first time I’ve had to do 3 interviews for a job. Fuck. Before that it was either you were hired or told you’ll hear back. Not this having to meet everybody and their mom by the third fuckin
dateinterview, not only that but what if they don’t get you? You wasted time and gas they ain’t gonna pay for.3 is a lot, though not the most egregious. My worst experience was five interviews ranging from HR to the fucking CEO only for them to low ball me at the end of it.
I did not take the job.
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