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Re:Convincing engineers to join your team by avip on Thursday August 30, 2018 @02:42PM (#17879506)
It's the standard because it's a big world and some candidates travel long for an interview. So you squash the process into a day. That makes sense.
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Re:Convincing engineers to join your team by mathgeek on Thursday August 30, 2018 @07:56PM (#17881861)
Could you elaborate on why it makes sense to have these candidates travel long distances for a full day interview, rather than have them travel nowhere for a shorter interview via video chat?
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Re:Convincing engineers to join your team by tropo on Thursday August 30, 2018 @10:21PM (#17882412)
You can verify their ID. You can show them around the office. You won't discriminate against dial-up modem users. You get the candidate to show that they are serious (flights, hotel, etc.) and you show them that you are serious by paying for it.
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Re:Convincing engineers to join your team by humanrebar on Thursday August 30, 2018 @11:25PM (#17882692)
Video conference software always stinks for whatever reason.
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Re:Convincing engineers to join your team by Apocryphon on Friday August 31, 2018 @01:43PM (#17887481)
You could always conduct half of those interviews by video and do the rest on-site.
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