Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters

Re:Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters by michaelt on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @04:44PM (#13700336)

  It's also not realistic, given the wheat-to-chaff ratio
  out there, for a manager to interview all the candidates
  directly without an elaborate screening process

Sure, but that screening process should be completed before you invite a candidate for an on-site interview.

I'm a hiring manager. If I say someone should spend 8 hours attending an in-person interview before I'll spend 5 minutes reviewing their resume/github, I'm saying my time is a hundred times as valuable as theirs. I can understand someone taking umbrage at that - especially someone who had better skills than me. And I want to hire people with better skills than me.

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Re:Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters by glangdale on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @07:14PM (#13701593)

I broadly agree with you, but let me nitpick a bit, because nothing suits HN like a pedantic quest for truth.

8 hours vs 5 minutes is a bit extreme, for a start.

Secondly, the time a hiring manager needs to spend reviewing resumes includes unsuccessful candidates as well - so it's not 5 minutes, its 5 minutes * |all_the_vaguely_plausible_candidates|. There might be 20 or 30 resumes in the pile for some of these jobs. SO the manager might be 100-150 minutes in, in order to get to that 1 person who needs a "8 hour interview" (or whatever that is; I suppose places that fly you somewhere might be burning 48 hours or more - I know people in Australia who have been flown to the US for job interviews!). If you live in town it might be more like 2-4 hours. So the ratio isn't quite as extreme as you make it out to be for the manager, even if it seems unfair to count time spent reviewing all the other candidates' resumes/githubs.

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