The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews

Re:The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews by abritinthebay on Sunday April 09, 2017 @06:11PM (#14074607)

Google's interview process is the single shining example of the worst interview process I've ever been through. So much so I actually took the interviewer to task for it.

It may be good at screening University graduates but it's pretty awful at anything else. It's also really obvious that the interviewers don't actually know how to interview people and are pretty much cargo-culting the same process that hired them.

Awful. It totally destroyed my perception of the company.

Now granted this was... 7 years ago, no (or more) but from colleagues who have interviewed there (or been hired!) it's not changed fundamentally that much.

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Re:The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews by AlexCoventry on Sunday April 09, 2017 @07:28PM (#14074893)

Getting candidates to jump through crazy hoops is a sensible strategy for a big organization. It selects for compliance, which is important when your enterprise is too complex, uncertain or fast-moving to operate by consensus

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Re:The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews by abritinthebay on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @08:22PM (#14093729)

A fair point, though not really a defense as such ;)

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