Re:Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership posit...
by tdeck on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @12:07AM
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+1 to this as someone who is currently on the border of doing too many interviews. At worst, it can have a cascading effect because recruiters then scramble to find a different interviewer, scheduling things last-minute that then may be canceled last minute. I don't know what the solutions are other than inviting fewer candidates to interview.
Re:Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership posit...
by danrocks on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @02:14AM
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I myself did 40 interviews last quarter and it was very hard to keep all conversations engaging and interesting. Fortunately having a modicum of standardizing feedback + topics to be covered helps, but I agree with your point that over-interviewing is bad for business.
Re:Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership posit...
by choppaface on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @02:23AM
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40 per quarter is very high. In ~2012 Twitter was doing 8 per week for ICs, which is also way too high.
Re:Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership posit...
by bigbillheck on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @07:34AM
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There are more than five weeks in a quarter.
This is a sign that an organization is doing too many fucking interviews. When you get scheduled for an interview every day of the week, you are quite literally forced to stop caring about the impact of cancelling interviews last minute. The recruiters may try to find an alternate interviewer, but often the candidate gets shafted. I never realized how common forcing the candidate to reschedule was (I had never experienced it while interviewing) but it happens to probably half a dozen candidates per day at my 600 person company.
Stripe notoriously went through a “hyper growth” (doubling headcount year over year when already past several hundred employees) phase for a number of years. That is an unspeakable torture to subject an organization to.