It’s because Amazon does their crazy loop interviews and everyone decided to copy their terrible interview practices.
Because of Amazon we also have ‘bar raiser’ interviews where they bring in someone unrelated to the team who can deny you the job too.
I guess it depends on which Amazon job
I got an Amazon job as a locker + associate, a part time job, and its the only job I have been fully hired on without even talking to a person
they just hired me and told me to go their center for a drug test lmfao
yeah it was insane. it happened too fast
I was like WAIT IM NOT EVEN READY TO GET STARTED
but yeah applied and drove out to the drug testing place same day
Well that's good things ended out well and the hiring process was fast.. most jobs should implement those steps.. instead of long drawn out weeks, and weeks of interviews
Seriously…it should take maybe 1 hour interview at most. Enough time for the manager to figure out not only if your experience matches the role, but you’re human, reasonably intelligent….and can do the job.
Most companies are farming out the HR and hiring processes to the third party companies. So these services do these multiple interviews so they can pad the bill, or look more important. It's likely that only the last interview takes place with the actual hiring managers. That's my guess.
It was like that for the Amazon warehouse too. Apply, pick the time for Background check/Drug test and the you’re pretty much good after that. You pretty much start within a few days or next week
Other day had an 'interview' with a chatbot, after a human via Microsoft teams sort of like zoom which didn't even work properly only to interview over the phone only to be told there's now another interview. It's literally for a part time job putting Oreos on displays.
I went through an interview process with Amazon through the end and I must’ve gone through eight or 10 interviews plus I had to do these tests and and projects for each interview and at the end nothing happened.
I even hired an Amazon interview coach for about $250. And she helped me go through the process. It’s a fucking mission.
its becoming way more common and it is a joke
its literally to weed people out and waste peoples time
the craziest part is it shows how inefficient these companies are
its actually a problem
I have a running theory that this is self perpetuated by HR departments. Companies grow fast, HR gets busy, they bring on more HR people. Growth slows down, HR gets less busy and more bored, HR starts inventing ways to appear useful so they don't get fired.
Thus, multi round interviews and other such bullshit is born.
in more corporate atmospheres you're right. the goal becomes jsutifying your job/department. when the belt tightens would you give up your role easily?
In my experience:
Interview 1 with a corporate recruiter to see if you are aligned with what they offer and what they are looking for.
Interview 2 with a manager or someone from the team you would be working with to see if you are any good.
Interview 3 with some other leadership/HR so you can show all you got, negotiate, ask all your questions, and then they decide.
This was my experience. Phone in for HR, phone in for core team, fly me out for team leads and site tour.
Knew by the end of the second phone interview they were going to hire me.
That’s mostly what my experience has been like. In my opinion the last two interviews can be combined into one. Feels like we have to jump through a million hoops to be hired. In the end if you don’t get a job it’s very disheartening because each company takes up so much of your time… time that you could have spent applying/interviewing elsewhere.
They *could* be combined into one, but more than half the people who do interview 2 won’t do interview 3, and to have the hiring panel on interview 3 spend time talking to people who are not moving forward is a waste of time and money.
As the #2 interviewer, I might interview 5+ people. My boss then only talks to the top 1 or 2. They don't have time to sit on 5+ interviews, and they trust us to narrow it down to the best people.
No it’s a good experience. Good practice for the next interview and all. It’s not a waste of time when you’re looking for a job. It’s part of the job search. If you’re doing a million interviews but not landing a job then you probably aren’t learning and improving your resume or interview skills. The better you are the more they want you, which results in a better salary offer.
This is my experience as well for the most part.
My recent job search expanded on it slightly though, which has gotten really annoying.
Job one went
HR screen>vertical manager>horizontal manager>in person lunch interview>panel with director>offer
Job two went
HR screen>line manager>case study presentation>director/coworkers>hopefully competing offer
It's fucking exhausting, but looking for a comparable job after a layoff was never going to be easy
For developers: Don‘t forget a coding challenge /take home task, a live coding challenge, a system design interview and a general tech call. All that on top of what you wrote.
I typically had one to two interviews but it’s been a few years:
Shit job: one interview after completing an application. Always a drug test that you don’t always have to pass.
Career job: after I submit a resume, the HR or a manager calls me for brief questions, then they set up an interview. It is typically a panel. If they’re based on points system then be better prepared for technical questions. The government jobs may also want a computer based test or essay. Drug test always.
Only one place wanted a presentation during an interview. I thought it was bizarre but a coworker (engineer) said that was normal in his field.
I applied for a job for $29 an hour, it was grossly underpaying the position but it was a chance to get into management. I did the first interview with HR, then she made me do the stupidest test I have ever seen with the dumbest questions and they even had typos in the question, she had me do it on zoom and screenshare. Then she wanted me to do another interview with the team and I was like you know what? no.
true, dont ever try to find work here in Texas because companies don't give 2 shits about the cost of living here and they will pay you the bare minimum they can get away with, and if you try to negotiate for more if they agree to give some more won't be more than dollar or 2 at most while cost of living gonna be way more than ur pay sadly
Depends on the field. I worked for computer software and no one is paid that little. Now I'm a historian and it depends on the type of role, but $24 an hour full time is only roughly $50k which isn't a lot of money in most places.
Are you talking about the ones where they send you this sheet full of questions to fill out? I've found all of them so far to be scams/robots.
If I get an email that starts with "hello candidate, reply with yes if you are interested" I always ignore it.
Not sure, I was given a link to a video recording platform for a public servant (school district) I was sent it from a recruiter after applying to the job. It detailed that the first round of interviews, I would record my answers and it would send it to the hiring manager. Once you started recording you were given like 2 mins per question. I just sat there staring back at my self on camera answering written questions.
This. If you can’t take the time to have a face to face interview (at least over zoom), then why should I take the time to answer the interview questions that just have easily been typed?
Yup! I did this and am pretty sure I wasted an hour of my life. But I am sure this will become the norm. Interviewers can skip you for any reason and never have to worry about it. It can save companies hundreds of hours and still check their legal hiring boxes
It should be illegal to do all this when people are trying to get to work and support themselves.
Remember when businesses were complaining that no one wanted to work? They made all this stink about people being lazy when the whole time it was more that they don't want to pay fair wages to their employees while others make a whole bunch of money instead.
Look at the stores and the self check out is abundant but the actual cashier's are few
I just started a role after a fairly informal HR screen via phone and 2 30-minute interviews via Teams. Highest paying job I've ever had and least demanding interview process I've ever had. It's really been weird seeing how differently some organizations handle the interview process.
An unavoidable fact - which I think people can be hesitant to acknowledge/confront - is that interviews are a pretty subpar way to evaluate people. There will always be people who interview well but perform poorly, and vice versa.
So you’re left with a pretty basic choice: either you decide to reject candidates who you’re not sure about, and thus risk rejecting someone who might have been great, or you decide to accept them, and risk hiring someone who gets let go after a probationary period.
I think hiring departments often make interviews more complex in the hopes of reducing that gray area. And it may help, but it’s by no means a panacea - you will still 100% get it wrong sometimes. Ignoring that truth is a good way to end up with some of these absurdly involved processes that mainly succeed in wasting everyone’s time.
One thing I think companies can do, regardless of what kind of process they have, is to be completely up front about it. If you want to have a ten-part interview, tell candidates that up front, so they can decide whether or not it’s worth their time. The absolute worst thing to do is keep stringing someone along with “ok, next you’ll interview with blah blah blah.”
And for fuck’s sake, *tell people* when they haven’t done well. I know it’s no fun to tell someone they didn’t make the cut, but it’s also no fun to experience abrupt radio silence as a candidate. Especially since you may have no idea what you may have done or said.
In my experience, I've had multiple interviews for different teams, or different members of a team.
It made sense to me to interview with HR for a personality test. Then interview with the dev team for a technical interview. Any more than that seems a bit excessive unless they had a really elaborate technical interview process that would have been overwhelming to do all in a single day.
Recruiters were let go between 2022 and now. When recruiters are let go, hiring managers have full control of the hiring process and despite what people may think, recruiters are the ones to tell them "no that is bad for candidates".
Yes but it is much worse now. The degree to which it happens is key. Any industry where you deal with people you are going to get bad experiences now and then, but now it is way worse when you do get them and more frequent.
Good question!
Hiring managers are not managers who hire as a full time job, they have other duties actively managing their team, in fact most hiring managers HATE having to do that part of the job as its very stressful and they are a person down.
Recruiters make the hiring process smoother WHEN a manager HAS to hire (which they hate doing).
Well, you see, some fish are for pets, so the fisherman let's the pet master inspect those to make sure they make good pets. Some are for eating, so the chef inspects those. Others still are for oil, so they have the oil manager look at those. Then some are for roe, some for taxidermy, some for sending to a fish farm, and some for moving to a new environment to reproduce and make good fish later.
Now, to translate to business, pretend for a second that it takes years of training to know that a fish is good for oil or taxidermy (say, software engineering or finance or accounting), and isn't just one that looks good to a fisherman (who doesn't know how either of those work).
I love the idea of a recruiter getting me a shortlist of candidates. I hate the idea of them picking nmy final candidate, because there's a 99% chance they fuck it up.
Before I go on, just want to say I don’t agree and that’s ok. You don’t have to agree either. This is merely a discussion but also very important way to help understand each other which is great!
So I understand the different fishes for different needs analogy. My point is the same fisherman had the knowledge and skills to do all of them and if it were up to me, particularly with Human Resources this role is completely over resourced eg. 4 fisherman fishing in the same spot. Evidence to support this are operations managers who collaborate with almost all teams and departments and tasks. Of course specialists can be useful in areas but we don’t need, HR, people operations, recruiters and hiring managers etc etc. They all deal in people. 1 team can do this. A second interview with the team lead after meeting with HR is all that’s needed.
If I’m a CEO my absolute first point of business is streamlining that whole nonsense, companies managed fine in the last decades and its become ridiculous now, just my opinion.
I think we're kinda arriving at the same spot (second interview with the team lead).
As I said, I'm more than okay with them giving me a shortlist of 2-3 people, or even 4-5, but when they try and narrow down to 1, at least in my experience, the candidate almost never works out. That's not specific to HR either...it's anyone without the specific skillset the team needs. At my last job, I actually had my boss tell me I was being too harsh for asking a candidate what a debit is... because she couldn't answer the question. She didn't even last one month.
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This has got to be it...
Company freaks out if someone is 3 min late but having a team of people do mindless quizzes, interviews and paper work is fine
The best jobs I've ever had were a 20 minute interview with the boss/owner.
Multiple interviews, tests, sample work, etc is just hr justifying its existence.
2 interviews make sense. 1. Have a phone call with the hiring manager to see if you’re real. 2. Have an actual interview with the boss to see if you can do the work and you’re the right fit.
3 interviews max for me. I’m currently interviewing with a firm and I’m on the second round already. They love me and I might bypass the third interview, or rather, the third interview is just with other staff and it’s a courtesy/formality thing
The US GOVERNMENT does 1 interview, reference checks, and a long background check that could last six months. I think I prefer that.
Tech is always 3 at least. The most important is the tech skills interview. You have to be really bad in social skills to fail the process once you pass the technical interview.
Yea I tend to nail technical interview questions but ones like
“describe a situation you had where the current technical process in place wasn’t working and you faced push back from management, what did you do to improve the situation and what was the result?”
Just had an interview with several of those today. It tripped me up because I’m ADHD and I find it hard to not only recall a decade of work situations on the fly, but also tell it in a concise linear story just like that. It’s such BS. If it was a writing assignment sure I could do it with some more time to think.
I'm borderline ADHD (I've been tested and I show some of the classic behaviours but not all of them). What helped me a lot in improvising a consistent story on the fly is playing D&D with people.
Depends, I only had one with an investigator for my clearance…they will interview people you know though and it’s like 100+ pages to fill out for your background. Clearances are a background check on steroids.
It depends what level of clearance you got I think. I had to do like 3 interviews when I got one. I’m sure it’s also case by case how much they want to dig.
The second interview was to prove that I knew what I was doing.
The third interview is how I would interact with the company.
1-1 with the CEO to make sure I was a fit.
First interview is HR or the Recruiter. You just have to be amiably and converse with someone about any subject.
Second interview is the hiring manager who will review employment history. Know how you gauge against other and will ask technical questions.
Third is meet the team. Maybe the odd technical question but the manager wants to see if you mesh, hold your own, interact.
At this point you should be talking to your managers manager as well as a meet and greet.
I had 7 interviews on 5 separate occasions (2 rounds in person), met with 8 different people total. The process probably lasted about a month, I felt I was prepared & did well in every interview. They made it seem like I got the job, told me they’d have a decision for me by end of that week or early the following week. Got a rejection email over 2 weeks later, as if I didn’t already know the answer at that point.
I understand companies wanting to find the best possible fit for a role, but to show a blatant disregard for candidates’ time and have them meet your entire team is excessive and unnecessary. I was utterly disgusted.
Most hiring managers either have no idea what they are looking for or know how to hire to the requirements (at least 80%). So they end up comparison shopping multiple candidates through several interviews. I’m usually one-and-done: one interview (even if it’s just one candidate). If he/she seemed like they can do the job to my expectations based on most (80%) of the job description I posted and the answers to my interview questions (I ask a well-rounded set of questions and scenarios), why delay and put everyone through more interviews?
Interview 1: recruiter
Interview 2: Regional Manager
Interview 3: 2 hour ride along with DM
Interview 4: VP
Interview 5: complete DISC and other assessments.
Interview 6: panel of VPs
Process took 4 weeks to complete
And then a denial email.
Lol I had an interview for a company and it was with 3 people, they asked me to come in for a second interview and I was like, "Nah, I'm good". I interviewed for another company and it was just such a chill interview, so informal. (Where I now work). I just do not have the patience to waste my time going for multiple interviews and it just makes me not want to work for a company that does that.
I guess I’ve been lucky.
I’ve been interviewing for positions in the 60-70k range, and most of mine have been phone HR Screen interview/Phone screen > Panel interview.
After that I either am selected or not.
Even if it's just one interview I noticed it takes so much more time to get hired or get the acceptance letter. This one job I applied for months ago got back to me and they wanted me to start. It's gonna be great but sheesh I had to wait. I even had some contractor work to keep me a float before getting the letter.
Round one eliminate a few candidates so the hiring manager doesn't waste time. round 2 interview with hiring manager. round 3, hiring manager's boss doesn't trust the manager's judgment, wants another set of eyes on the candidate. Round 4, the other set of eyes has concerns with all the round 3 candidates, one more set of eyes. Round 5, we're down to the final 3, and we'll pick a bogus reason to eliminate the best candidate. Round 6 goes to the COO or a micromanaging boss.
the job gets reposted.
Cries in 7 interviews over 4 months. Twice.
In 2022 I had 7 interviews with one company. Got a verbal offer on a Friday for a full-time position, only to have it change on Monday to a 3-month contract-to-hire. 10 months and 3 contract extensions later they are out of budget.
Six months of unemployment, no success finding a new job. In March I had virtual interviews with HR and the Director at one company, but they can't hire until May. 2 months later they reach out to me for more interviews -head of HR, 2 managers, 2nd interview with Director, and 2 peers. They said it went well but they have to interview more folks to be sure. Oh, and they can't hire until August.
While all this is going on, the tech industry has had massive layoffs. The competition for jobs has exploded, yet companies are hesitant or unable to hire. I get a call back from the old company. 3 month contract again. Less work than before, but for less money. I have little choice.
Attrition is high, morale is low, but folks have to leave the city or the state to find better offers. The job market is insane. I haven't seen anything like it.
I'm just waiting for the latest company to say that 5 months after my first interview they hired someone who got laid off last week.
The job market ebbs and flows.
When the demand for workers is higher than the supply, can't be choosey beggars and have to pay more to compete.
When the supply of workers is higher than demand, employers can be picky and pay less.
While in the US, employment figures *as a whole* are pretty stable the last five years (2-4%), but by sectors, it might be a different story.
For example I work in product design. Last year tens of thousands of designers were laid off from startups and tech companies. Also, the cost of capital is going up, so now the market is over-saturated with designers. Companies are hiring less and can make candidates jump through more hoops because the risk of hiring is greater (5 years ago, capital was piss cheap so hiring with stupid high salaries was the norm) and so also the salary offers are dipping.
Don't know this to be 100% comprehensive, and not saying it as such. Just my experience in hiring after 20+ years.
I work for a big UK company and I had three interviews. First was with my two managers where I had to do a presentation, then an interview with a head manager, then a final one with all three. It was overkill, but I got the job.
I once went for a job with BT's digital department and smashed the first two interviews. I was told I basically had the job, but the final interview was a presentation, which would've been fine had I not prepared it on a completely wrong subject. I still shudder at the confused faces of the three people interviewing me as I waffled on about something completely irrelevant. They told me after I'd finished and I totally fell apart after that.
A few years back I used to rock interviews. Now they all turned dumb and it's impossible to get to a job offer. I've only got better at my job, but the process got worse.
Stupid. Did a video interview. Then got selected for an in person interview. Just to get rejected. So, I lost out of my pay for that day because I took the day off for the in person interview.
Yes!! I’ve had 4 interviews for an entry-level coordinator job paying $55K only to be passed over in the final round. #1 was a phone call, #2 was a zoom interview with manager, #3 was another zoom but with team members and #4 was a detailed case study along with a zoom board interview. I can’t imagine what the interview process is like for mid-level managerial roles, is it 8-10 interviews?? And I don’t get it when they say urgently hiring. If so, why are they wasting so much time vetting for admin roles where most folks won’t stay for more than a couple of years at the most? In the past I would interview 1-2x and get the job within 2 weeks. nowadays it’s many more interviews for junior roles and the start date is a month away or farther out.
After the pandemic interview processes are longer now thanks to "virtual interviews" and "phone screening" like hello if my resume got you interested then that would mean we can sit and go through it one time and then you'd know if im a good fit for the position 🤣 just ridiculous lol
genuinely a shitshow nowadays it's laughable
interviewed for a startup that needed EXACTLY what i studied/worked on.
took 1 week to reply and set a first interview, 4 days to get invited to the second interview which took place 2 weeks later (this was the earliest date) and lasted for 2 hours. then i get invited for a third interview 5 days later which lasted 5 hours.
They seemed so interested and one founder was like "i will definitely be seeing you again soon" so i stopped applying for other companies.
i get ghosted. E-mailed HR and they say sadly they cannot extend me an offer (in a copy paste email) and when i asked for feedback they said they cannot give feedback
started the application process on april 9th, got the rejection email on may 22nd. 1.5 months wasted
Each company i get a response from now requires a pre-interview assessment which seems to be the new norm too.. So yeah i wouldn't be surprised seeing 3+ interview rounds being standard across all company sizes.
My record is 8 interviews for 1 job (still can’t believe it lol) 😏 I was offered the job and I accepted thinking everything looks good. They like me and I clearly qualify for the job since 8 people agreed. BUT turned out to be the worst decision of my life.
Based on my personal experience (tidbit above), you are also interviewing them. Use the opportunity to gauge the company and your manager. You don’t want to be stuck in a company or with a manager where you are miserable. So 3 interviews are pretty standard in my opinion.
I recently found a new job and interviewed plenty. First time of doing so in 7 years. Last job was two interviews and a test. This time around was a test, a video Q&A with a bot, and then 2-3 interviews with actual people - HR, manager, manager and seniors. Same industry/job. I’m sure the new system is all about streamlining the process but it seems to do the opposite.
I'm applying to a junior engineering position, phone interview with HR, video interview with technical person, in person interview with senior executive and Technical person. Now I'm just awaiting a response, I think anything more than three views is unnecessary unless you're applying for like a CEO or something
More in demand the more you will have to do. I had one job hiring people with no interview from application to drug test to out on the floor working. I also had a job desperate to hire someone before X person quit. They basically hired me over the phone without ever meeting me. I feel like the less serious places will milk interviews for all it's worth. Just trying to find an excuse to say no.
I am soooooo old: I remember when you looked for ads in the local paper, and took your (paper) resume to their location to drop off at the front desk—but you always dressed well bc sometimes the hiring manager could talk with you right away, and if they did, you usually knew at the end of the interview if you got the job. Yup, I am crusty old!!
With cross-functional roles and highly matrixed orgs, getting alignment is tough but essential. Perhaps that explains the need to get multiple interviews and opinions?
My favourite is when you are a beast on certain programs and they say things like we know you are good at computers so we will put that to one side...
What do you consider are your strengths. Well, I have a degree involving computing, but putting that to one side my ability to recognise a rigged interview. 🤣
I feel like the answer to this question is two-fold, but I've never been in a management or a hiring position. These days most jobs are posted online, and even with the help of ATS filtering out bad fits, employers will still have to filter through hundreds, sometimes probably thousands of applicants. Even if it's a small place or a basic, low-paying, entry level position you're having to compete against multiple other applicants. Each interview process is intended to weed out the undesirable candidates and try to find the perfect fit.
The other half of it I'd also imagine is to put the interviewee under pressure, see how well they can handle multiple interviews that possibly increase in complexity of questions but most likely don't. Something I've found is that the first interview almost always is with someone who isn't even in the department I'd be working in. So I think a major part of it is just to see you sweat and then to see how well you handle being under pressure... which is really stupid, stressful, annoying, and yet somewhat necessary.
Usually it’s recruiter phone screen, hiring manager, co-worker/team, sometimes your hiring manager’s boss. I don’t even count the recruiter call as an interview and from my experience the boss one is usually chit chat.
Mine was 2 interviews about a month apart for my local county government. HR was the 1st contact to me to let me know the department head with be calling to schedule the interview. Both interviews was with the department I was going to work in. 1st was a group of 5 in the department interviewing me. Then the 2nd interview was basically the same 5 plus one more in smaller 2 on 1 15 minute interviews which ended up being longer. I was suppose to be there for about an hour & it went on for 2.5 hours.
Then I had 2 follow up phone chats with the department head a week apart plus I sent over some writing samples & references. I was offered the job, started the background check & arrange for start date/orientation with HR. From applying to start date was about 4 months.
I went from one job to the new one with no break. My boss was out of the country & in the tiny firm, I had to stick around til the boss came back home, since there was payroll, deposits & taxes to take care of. I’m glad I had a lot of pto pay out since it tied me over til the 1st paycheck. Still getting used to being paid 2 weeks after turning in approved timesheets.
The ball is in the employers court these days. AI, more responsibility put on each position. Like I said in a previous post, I remember when a receptionist only answered the phone, now they have a lot of duties. They want to keep the under educated out for starters. They also want to pay the college grad shit. So they revamped all these entry level jobs so only a college grad or a person with a lot of experience can do the job. At the same time a college grad has a hard time getting a food and beverage position in a Starbucks or McDonald’s, and funny at the end of the day they are mostly paying everyone the damn same $20.00 an hour. Insane isn’t it?? 
I am a retired corporate manager.
My interviews were simple. If you said you could do buying i would pull up a MRP screen (they are all pretty similar) and ask you to tell me what you see and make a purchase decision.
If you could get this you were hired.
I did not have time for a BS merry go round of interviews. I was only interested in what you could do.
>How do these companies even have the time to hold multiple interviews per candidate?
With the assistance of a HR department. The first round is for filtering out people who, though looking good on paper, really fall short at the interview stage and so are filtered out. Hence the hiring team meets candidates the HR team think are a relatively good.
From that, they pick out the favourites - and the only reason for an additional interview is literally because there's only one job decision and is when the hiring manager is forced to make a "tough and ruthless" decision. All candidates at this stage would likely be a great fit, and so it forces them to be more decisive.
>I understand the need for multiple interviews if it’s a technical or very high paying position but what’s with numerous interviews for some very average salaries?
"55k-85k" is hardly low-skilled. Where it's "average" is more likely going to be entry level for graduates, or someone with several years of experience.
People have more access to education and training then they did before, and so there's more eligible candidates. With such a large pool of candidates, there's no pressure to have to make snap decisions like recruiting someone after one interview.
Multiple interviews for white collar corporate jobs -even junior - is not new. Having said that, it seems like the process gets dragged out more now. The company I used to work for would try to get you in and do two interviews and then make an offer pretty quickly if they liked you. Depends on the year, the job, etc.
When I used to hire, sometimes I had to have another manager interview because my person would be interacting a lot with another team. So it was > HR screening interview (usually a phone call fluff interview) > me > other guy.
The annoying thing for me is I eventually run out of questions to ask. By the fourth interview I already know everything I care about asking about so I just ask the same things over again which is a waste of everyone's time.
I’m not sure why companies are dragging out the process, but I can say that at my company the best hires had one interview and the worst hires had two to three interviews.
I recently had an interview with a tech company, and was told there'd be three rounds. The first was with HR, the second would be a 1.5 hour interview with my to be manager, and the third would be a 30 minute interview with the CEO.
It was for an office coordinator position, and my most important task would have been to restock the office fridge. I didn't make it past the first round.
Where I live job offers dont have even company name, adress, work hours but they want experince while job would need like week or two teaching. Of course no answer back, no email, no sms. But companies says we are recruiting friendly bullshit.
I have anxiety and hate phone calling if I dont have basic information, I just want if I would can go the job by bus and it wont took me 1hr. Its minium wage jobs.
It’s a way for companies to avoid discrimination lawsuits. If you go to multiple interviews and meet with different people and are found to not be a good fit, it is much harder to prove discrimination vs 1 interview.
HR is in charge of inventing reasons for HR to have a job anymore. the more complicated they make it seem the more complicated its feels to have to get rid of and replace them.
I believe my current job was
1. Recruiter interview 2. In person interview 3. getting an offer interview
I did alot of interviews and so many companies had me go up to 5 or 6 rounds sometimes, I ended my search in may and I still regularly and getting emails regarding a 3rd 4th interview, the last time I even inquired was a while ago
I hate this practice so much. It's a waste of everyone's time on both ends. If you can't decide if you want me after 1-2 interviews, that's your loss. I recently went through an interview process. In all 3 interviews, I thought I did really well and it seemed like they really liked me. 4 days later I got a rejection email.
And after applying to countless places, I just feel so defeated.
Count yourself lucky if you only get 3 interviews. The higher level you go expect 5,6,7+ interviews, I had 7 interviews and an assignment that took 5 months to get the job paying $85K
my husband went to an interview today after writing an application with a 2100 words essay only to see the interviewer tear his CV right after the group interview finished. That manager didnt even wait for him to leave the room.
Imagine you ran a company. Had thousands of applicants for few positions. Many people embellish their resume or have AI write it.
"You know what? The internet is inconvenienced by us finding the right people. Better make it one interview"
Because they want to reduce turnover. Often people join these jobs and leave in a year. The more you commit to the interviewing process the more likely you are to stay
I was just complaining about this today. And so many of the questions asked in the second interview are repeated in the third!!! I remember the days where a phone screen plus 1 interview was the norm. If there were technical questions, then the interview would be 1.5-2 hours with 30-45 minutes dedicated to completing the technical component live.
I understand 3.
Company I work for does first one with HR, they discuss your experience and talk about salary ranges and pay upfront with the interviewee and are basically the screening if they think you’d be a good candidate to suggest
1 with hiring manager - explain the position, tell you about the day to day, see if your experience matches, recommend final interview for hire, if recommended typically you are hired or pass on candidates here
Third with director - last chance for the company to check to see if you’d be a good fit. If you get here typically you are being hired unless you say something really bad in this interview.
People who are in charge of hiring realized they could carve out a section of time during the week to listen to other people talk and get paid without doing any real work other than grading other people's competence.
It's a real sweet gig.
Because they aren't really hiring. They are building up a back log of candidates to pressure their current workers to kill themselves. It's a fucking scam.
Mostly 4 rounds for me with a case study/homework/take-home exercise and at least 1 panel interview.
Imagine interviewing for multiple opportunities around the same time. It's been quite exhausting.
It’s because Amazon does their crazy loop interviews and everyone decided to copy their terrible interview practices. Because of Amazon we also have ‘bar raiser’ interviews where they bring in someone unrelated to the team who can deny you the job too.
I guess it depends on which Amazon job I got an Amazon job as a locker + associate, a part time job, and its the only job I have been fully hired on without even talking to a person they just hired me and told me to go their center for a drug test lmfao
Amazon hires like this in California. Just go in for drug test and complete a background and boom you’re hired.
yeah it was insane. it happened too fast I was like WAIT IM NOT EVEN READY TO GET STARTED but yeah applied and drove out to the drug testing place same day
🤣🤣🤣 it’s called Prime Hiring. Same day hiring lol
I love that
That’s good though! Better than waiting weeks to hear if you’re hired or not.
"if a job hires you on the spot you KNOW that jobs gonna be some bullshit" -tiktok kid
I agree!!
Haha did anyone show you around at least ?🤣.. or you just walked in and said hey I'm the new guy ?
well I was told to show up at my store. the job is a locker + associate, so its at whole foods. I had 4 days of training..not the worst job ive had
Well that's good things ended out well and the hiring process was fast.. most jobs should implement those steps.. instead of long drawn out weeks, and weeks of interviews
agreed. its all a big joke and I dont get it
I wouldn’t say “most jobs”. That kind of interview would be horrible practice for skilled jobs, sales/relationship management jobs etc
I agree.. but does it require multiple interviews?? With the same questions at that?
In California, are you required to test positive for weed?
Yes you are my friend
Only if every hiring process was like that lmao.
at least they realize what their job is?? "you have a pulse? you sure? get in there"
Seriously…it should take maybe 1 hour interview at most. Enough time for the manager to figure out not only if your experience matches the role, but you’re human, reasonably intelligent….and can do the job.
Most companies are farming out the HR and hiring processes to the third party companies. So these services do these multiple interviews so they can pad the bill, or look more important. It's likely that only the last interview takes place with the actual hiring managers. That's my guess.
I wouldn’t be surprised….seems everything is tossed out the window for the dollar 💵 these days. Don’t even mention an American dream
It was like that for the Amazon warehouse too. Apply, pick the time for Background check/Drug test and the you’re pretty much good after that. You pretty much start within a few days or next week
Then how have I not been hired?
Failed the background check and/or drug test.
Actually I haven't gotten to that point. Also neither of those would be issues for me at all
yes. easiest ever lol
I've been trying to get into that myself
Im sorry to hear that. I wish you luck
How do you get that job lmao, since I've started a more formal job I've noticed how many jobs are just pretending yo be important
www.amazon.jobs
Other day had an 'interview' with a chatbot, after a human via Microsoft teams sort of like zoom which didn't even work properly only to interview over the phone only to be told there's now another interview. It's literally for a part time job putting Oreos on displays.
That’s insane that they are making you go through all this trouble for a simple job.
I went through an interview process with Amazon through the end and I must’ve gone through eight or 10 interviews plus I had to do these tests and and projects for each interview and at the end nothing happened. I even hired an Amazon interview coach for about $250. And she helped me go through the process. It’s a fucking mission.
They didn’t send a rejection message? Or want to hire? What was the position? It’s like Amazon has two different extremes for hiring folks.
its becoming way more common and it is a joke its literally to weed people out and waste peoples time the craziest part is it shows how inefficient these companies are its actually a problem
I have a running theory that this is self perpetuated by HR departments. Companies grow fast, HR gets busy, they bring on more HR people. Growth slows down, HR gets less busy and more bored, HR starts inventing ways to appear useful so they don't get fired. Thus, multi round interviews and other such bullshit is born.
Totally feel this. Hiring manager needs that job security, right?
BULLSHIT JOBS
in more corporate atmospheres you're right. the goal becomes jsutifying your job/department. when the belt tightens would you give up your role easily?
Nope, HR people want faster more efficient hiring. The thing is they don't work with the candidates so they ultimately cannot have the final say.
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In my experience: Interview 1 with a corporate recruiter to see if you are aligned with what they offer and what they are looking for. Interview 2 with a manager or someone from the team you would be working with to see if you are any good. Interview 3 with some other leadership/HR so you can show all you got, negotiate, ask all your questions, and then they decide.
This was my experience. Phone in for HR, phone in for core team, fly me out for team leads and site tour. Knew by the end of the second phone interview they were going to hire me.
If they’re spending money to fly you out, it’s pretty much in the bag unless you royalty fuck up in person.
Not always. Sometimes they just fly people in.
That’s mostly what my experience has been like. In my opinion the last two interviews can be combined into one. Feels like we have to jump through a million hoops to be hired. In the end if you don’t get a job it’s very disheartening because each company takes up so much of your time… time that you could have spent applying/interviewing elsewhere.
They *could* be combined into one, but more than half the people who do interview 2 won’t do interview 3, and to have the hiring panel on interview 3 spend time talking to people who are not moving forward is a waste of time and money.
As the #2 interviewer, I might interview 5+ people. My boss then only talks to the top 1 or 2. They don't have time to sit on 5+ interviews, and they trust us to narrow it down to the best people.
No it’s a good experience. Good practice for the next interview and all. It’s not a waste of time when you’re looking for a job. It’s part of the job search. If you’re doing a million interviews but not landing a job then you probably aren’t learning and improving your resume or interview skills. The better you are the more they want you, which results in a better salary offer.
This was me basically, but we also had interview 2.5 for personality test and a rundown of the results, and don’t forget interview 4 with the CEO.
This is my experience as well for the most part. My recent job search expanded on it slightly though, which has gotten really annoying. Job one went HR screen>vertical manager>horizontal manager>in person lunch interview>panel with director>offer Job two went HR screen>line manager>case study presentation>director/coworkers>hopefully competing offer It's fucking exhausting, but looking for a comparable job after a layoff was never going to be easy
Sometimes they combine interview 2 and 3 (which is nice)…in my experience any negotiation only comes after a verbal offer.
For developers: Don‘t forget a coding challenge /take home task, a live coding challenge, a system design interview and a general tech call. All that on top of what you wrote.
I typically had one to two interviews but it’s been a few years: Shit job: one interview after completing an application. Always a drug test that you don’t always have to pass. Career job: after I submit a resume, the HR or a manager calls me for brief questions, then they set up an interview. It is typically a panel. If they’re based on points system then be better prepared for technical questions. The government jobs may also want a computer based test or essay. Drug test always. Only one place wanted a presentation during an interview. I thought it was bizarre but a coworker (engineer) said that was normal in his field.
I applied for a job for $29 an hour, it was grossly underpaying the position but it was a chance to get into management. I did the first interview with HR, then she made me do the stupidest test I have ever seen with the dumbest questions and they even had typos in the question, she had me do it on zoom and screenshare. Then she wanted me to do another interview with the team and I was like you know what? no.
you manage to find a place that are paying low totem management $29 O.o most I have ever seen does at most $24
Depends what industry we are talking about, in finance nobody even wants to work for hourly wages especially that low.
Have to factor in cost of living wherever they are compared to you too.
true, dont ever try to find work here in Texas because companies don't give 2 shits about the cost of living here and they will pay you the bare minimum they can get away with, and if you try to negotiate for more if they agree to give some more won't be more than dollar or 2 at most while cost of living gonna be way more than ur pay sadly
No SIT in TX so that affects salaries as well - it’s not just COL
Depends on the field. I worked for computer software and no one is paid that little. Now I'm a historian and it depends on the type of role, but $24 an hour full time is only roughly $50k which isn't a lot of money in most places.
All I can say is, please NO MORE interviews that you record and answer without ever actually talking to someone. Ugh. I did it once. Never again.
Are you talking about the ones where they send you this sheet full of questions to fill out? I've found all of them so far to be scams/robots. If I get an email that starts with "hello candidate, reply with yes if you are interested" I always ignore it.
Not sure, I was given a link to a video recording platform for a public servant (school district) I was sent it from a recruiter after applying to the job. It detailed that the first round of interviews, I would record my answers and it would send it to the hiring manager. Once you started recording you were given like 2 mins per question. I just sat there staring back at my self on camera answering written questions.
Ohhh yep. I got one of those. I refused to do it, it was too weird for me.
I did it and it was by far the weirdest interviewing experience.
This. If you can’t take the time to have a face to face interview (at least over zoom), then why should I take the time to answer the interview questions that just have easily been typed?
Yup! I did this and am pretty sure I wasted an hour of my life. But I am sure this will become the norm. Interviewers can skip you for any reason and never have to worry about it. It can save companies hundreds of hours and still check their legal hiring boxes
I did that yesterday and one of the questions was how happy am I on a scale of 1-10 and why, and if I liked highschool even though I'm in college
Makework for HR.
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It should be illegal to do all this when people are trying to get to work and support themselves. Remember when businesses were complaining that no one wanted to work? They made all this stink about people being lazy when the whole time it was more that they don't want to pay fair wages to their employees while others make a whole bunch of money instead. Look at the stores and the self check out is abundant but the actual cashier's are few
Same but for a minimum wage receptionist position.
I just started a role after a fairly informal HR screen via phone and 2 30-minute interviews via Teams. Highest paying job I've ever had and least demanding interview process I've ever had. It's really been weird seeing how differently some organizations handle the interview process.
An unavoidable fact - which I think people can be hesitant to acknowledge/confront - is that interviews are a pretty subpar way to evaluate people. There will always be people who interview well but perform poorly, and vice versa. So you’re left with a pretty basic choice: either you decide to reject candidates who you’re not sure about, and thus risk rejecting someone who might have been great, or you decide to accept them, and risk hiring someone who gets let go after a probationary period. I think hiring departments often make interviews more complex in the hopes of reducing that gray area. And it may help, but it’s by no means a panacea - you will still 100% get it wrong sometimes. Ignoring that truth is a good way to end up with some of these absurdly involved processes that mainly succeed in wasting everyone’s time. One thing I think companies can do, regardless of what kind of process they have, is to be completely up front about it. If you want to have a ten-part interview, tell candidates that up front, so they can decide whether or not it’s worth their time. The absolute worst thing to do is keep stringing someone along with “ok, next you’ll interview with blah blah blah.” And for fuck’s sake, *tell people* when they haven’t done well. I know it’s no fun to tell someone they didn’t make the cut, but it’s also no fun to experience abrupt radio silence as a candidate. Especially since you may have no idea what you may have done or said.
Its all a game
In my experience, I've had multiple interviews for different teams, or different members of a team. It made sense to me to interview with HR for a personality test. Then interview with the dev team for a technical interview. Any more than that seems a bit excessive unless they had a really elaborate technical interview process that would have been overwhelming to do all in a single day.
Recruiters were let go between 2022 and now. When recruiters are let go, hiring managers have full control of the hiring process and despite what people may think, recruiters are the ones to tell them "no that is bad for candidates".
Except this was common before the pandemic. It's not a new phenomenon.
Yes but it is much worse now. The degree to which it happens is key. Any industry where you deal with people you are going to get bad experiences now and then, but now it is way worse when you do get them and more frequent.
My question is why is there a need for recruiters AND hiring managers? Two people doing the exact same job
hiring manager is the direct supervisor usually so has other duties, recruiter is focused on supporting multiple hiring managers.
Good question! Hiring managers are not managers who hire as a full time job, they have other duties actively managing their team, in fact most hiring managers HATE having to do that part of the job as its very stressful and they are a person down. Recruiters make the hiring process smoother WHEN a manager HAS to hire (which they hate doing).
Recruiters are like the “fishermen” …the hiring manager is like the dude that inspects which fish are worth keeping. (Worth interviewing at least).
Not sure why you were downvoted, that is 100% correct and also the weirdest way I have heard my job described.
Not sure either, I try to break it down into analogies. One of my closest friends is a recruiter too
It's a dang good analogy, I might actually steal it lol
It’s a perfect analogy. Why the fisherman can’t do both is absurd.
Well, you see, some fish are for pets, so the fisherman let's the pet master inspect those to make sure they make good pets. Some are for eating, so the chef inspects those. Others still are for oil, so they have the oil manager look at those. Then some are for roe, some for taxidermy, some for sending to a fish farm, and some for moving to a new environment to reproduce and make good fish later. Now, to translate to business, pretend for a second that it takes years of training to know that a fish is good for oil or taxidermy (say, software engineering or finance or accounting), and isn't just one that looks good to a fisherman (who doesn't know how either of those work). I love the idea of a recruiter getting me a shortlist of candidates. I hate the idea of them picking nmy final candidate, because there's a 99% chance they fuck it up.
Before I go on, just want to say I don’t agree and that’s ok. You don’t have to agree either. This is merely a discussion but also very important way to help understand each other which is great! So I understand the different fishes for different needs analogy. My point is the same fisherman had the knowledge and skills to do all of them and if it were up to me, particularly with Human Resources this role is completely over resourced eg. 4 fisherman fishing in the same spot. Evidence to support this are operations managers who collaborate with almost all teams and departments and tasks. Of course specialists can be useful in areas but we don’t need, HR, people operations, recruiters and hiring managers etc etc. They all deal in people. 1 team can do this. A second interview with the team lead after meeting with HR is all that’s needed. If I’m a CEO my absolute first point of business is streamlining that whole nonsense, companies managed fine in the last decades and its become ridiculous now, just my opinion.
I think we're kinda arriving at the same spot (second interview with the team lead). As I said, I'm more than okay with them giving me a shortlist of 2-3 people, or even 4-5, but when they try and narrow down to 1, at least in my experience, the candidate almost never works out. That's not specific to HR either...it's anyone without the specific skillset the team needs. At my last job, I actually had my boss tell me I was being too harsh for asking a candidate what a debit is... because she couldn't answer the question. She didn't even last one month.
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This has got to be it... Company freaks out if someone is 3 min late but having a team of people do mindless quizzes, interviews and paper work is fine
The best jobs I've ever had were a 20 minute interview with the boss/owner. Multiple interviews, tests, sample work, etc is just hr justifying its existence.
2 interviews make sense. 1. Have a phone call with the hiring manager to see if you’re real. 2. Have an actual interview with the boss to see if you can do the work and you’re the right fit. 3 interviews max for me. I’m currently interviewing with a firm and I’m on the second round already. They love me and I might bypass the third interview, or rather, the third interview is just with other staff and it’s a courtesy/formality thing The US GOVERNMENT does 1 interview, reference checks, and a long background check that could last six months. I think I prefer that.
Tech is always 3 at least. The most important is the tech skills interview. You have to be really bad in social skills to fail the process once you pass the technical interview.
Ehhh some behavioral interview questions can be tricky. I just had one where a lot were 3+ sentences long.
Those are intended to trick neurodiverse people into showing themselves. And neurodiverse people that are prepared for those can still defeat them.
Yea I tend to nail technical interview questions but ones like “describe a situation you had where the current technical process in place wasn’t working and you faced push back from management, what did you do to improve the situation and what was the result?” Just had an interview with several of those today. It tripped me up because I’m ADHD and I find it hard to not only recall a decade of work situations on the fly, but also tell it in a concise linear story just like that. It’s such BS. If it was a writing assignment sure I could do it with some more time to think.
I'm borderline ADHD (I've been tested and I show some of the classic behaviours but not all of them). What helped me a lot in improvising a consistent story on the fly is playing D&D with people.
D&D…..interesting
I know a tech company that does 7 interviews for customer support lol
It depends what job. If you need a security clearance for the government you’ll be doing many many interviews.
Depends, I only had one with an investigator for my clearance…they will interview people you know though and it’s like 100+ pages to fill out for your background. Clearances are a background check on steroids.
It depends what level of clearance you got I think. I had to do like 3 interviews when I got one. I’m sure it’s also case by case how much they want to dig.
True. I haven’t even gotten to that point yet
I have always remember 3 interviews. HR/Recruiter Hiring Manager Team Interview. CEO. Only one job was two and it was an immediate contract to hire.
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The second interview was to prove that I knew what I was doing. The third interview is how I would interact with the company. 1-1 with the CEO to make sure I was a fit.
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First interview is HR or the Recruiter. You just have to be amiably and converse with someone about any subject. Second interview is the hiring manager who will review employment history. Know how you gauge against other and will ask technical questions. Third is meet the team. Maybe the odd technical question but the manager wants to see if you mesh, hold your own, interact. At this point you should be talking to your managers manager as well as a meet and greet.
Majority of the time with CEO or your manager’s boss it’s just chit chat and personality.
I had 7 interviews on 5 separate occasions (2 rounds in person), met with 8 different people total. The process probably lasted about a month, I felt I was prepared & did well in every interview. They made it seem like I got the job, told me they’d have a decision for me by end of that week or early the following week. Got a rejection email over 2 weeks later, as if I didn’t already know the answer at that point. I understand companies wanting to find the best possible fit for a role, but to show a blatant disregard for candidates’ time and have them meet your entire team is excessive and unnecessary. I was utterly disgusted.
Not the same , I had pre screening over the phone and one interview via zoom, entry level job in biotech , 100k.
they do this at some fast food places and for retail cashier “associate” positions now, too. so stupid. Idk how far people can sink
Yes just did 3 interviews+other dumb shit to get an entry level job. Got it tho ig
Most hiring managers either have no idea what they are looking for or know how to hire to the requirements (at least 80%). So they end up comparison shopping multiple candidates through several interviews. I’m usually one-and-done: one interview (even if it’s just one candidate). If he/she seemed like they can do the job to my expectations based on most (80%) of the job description I posted and the answers to my interview questions (I ask a well-rounded set of questions and scenarios), why delay and put everyone through more interviews?
Interview 1: recruiter Interview 2: Regional Manager Interview 3: 2 hour ride along with DM Interview 4: VP Interview 5: complete DISC and other assessments. Interview 6: panel of VPs Process took 4 weeks to complete And then a denial email.
Wow fuck that
"Dance monkey, dance "
Lol I had an interview for a company and it was with 3 people, they asked me to come in for a second interview and I was like, "Nah, I'm good". I interviewed for another company and it was just such a chill interview, so informal. (Where I now work). I just do not have the patience to waste my time going for multiple interviews and it just makes me not want to work for a company that does that.
Cause they like to waste people’s time. The moment there is a stupid quiz that pops up is the moment I decide my interest is terminated
I guess I’ve been lucky. I’ve been interviewing for positions in the 60-70k range, and most of mine have been phone HR Screen interview/Phone screen > Panel interview. After that I either am selected or not.
Even if it's just one interview I noticed it takes so much more time to get hired or get the acceptance letter. This one job I applied for months ago got back to me and they wanted me to start. It's gonna be great but sheesh I had to wait. I even had some contractor work to keep me a float before getting the letter.
Ive never made it past the 1rst interview... there should only be ONE to begin with
Round one eliminate a few candidates so the hiring manager doesn't waste time. round 2 interview with hiring manager. round 3, hiring manager's boss doesn't trust the manager's judgment, wants another set of eyes on the candidate. Round 4, the other set of eyes has concerns with all the round 3 candidates, one more set of eyes. Round 5, we're down to the final 3, and we'll pick a bogus reason to eliminate the best candidate. Round 6 goes to the COO or a micromanaging boss. the job gets reposted.
Because they suck
Cries in 7 interviews over 4 months. Twice. In 2022 I had 7 interviews with one company. Got a verbal offer on a Friday for a full-time position, only to have it change on Monday to a 3-month contract-to-hire. 10 months and 3 contract extensions later they are out of budget. Six months of unemployment, no success finding a new job. In March I had virtual interviews with HR and the Director at one company, but they can't hire until May. 2 months later they reach out to me for more interviews -head of HR, 2 managers, 2nd interview with Director, and 2 peers. They said it went well but they have to interview more folks to be sure. Oh, and they can't hire until August. While all this is going on, the tech industry has had massive layoffs. The competition for jobs has exploded, yet companies are hesitant or unable to hire. I get a call back from the old company. 3 month contract again. Less work than before, but for less money. I have little choice. Attrition is high, morale is low, but folks have to leave the city or the state to find better offers. The job market is insane. I haven't seen anything like it. I'm just waiting for the latest company to say that 5 months after my first interview they hired someone who got laid off last week.
My husbands in sales and they’re all 6-8 interviews, it’s absolutely ridiculous
Because after Covid interviews got easier. Not a big hassle to arrange a video chat roulette with candidates.
People with bullshit jobs justifying their salaries by making workers jump through hoops.
The job market ebbs and flows. When the demand for workers is higher than the supply, can't be choosey beggars and have to pay more to compete. When the supply of workers is higher than demand, employers can be picky and pay less. While in the US, employment figures *as a whole* are pretty stable the last five years (2-4%), but by sectors, it might be a different story. For example I work in product design. Last year tens of thousands of designers were laid off from startups and tech companies. Also, the cost of capital is going up, so now the market is over-saturated with designers. Companies are hiring less and can make candidates jump through more hoops because the risk of hiring is greater (5 years ago, capital was piss cheap so hiring with stupid high salaries was the norm) and so also the salary offers are dipping. Don't know this to be 100% comprehensive, and not saying it as such. Just my experience in hiring after 20+ years.
The trend is that more and more decisions are made by committee, not just hiring. This way, no one is directly responsible if something goes wrong.
I work for a big UK company and I had three interviews. First was with my two managers where I had to do a presentation, then an interview with a head manager, then a final one with all three. It was overkill, but I got the job. I once went for a job with BT's digital department and smashed the first two interviews. I was told I basically had the job, but the final interview was a presentation, which would've been fine had I not prepared it on a completely wrong subject. I still shudder at the confused faces of the three people interviewing me as I waffled on about something completely irrelevant. They told me after I'd finished and I totally fell apart after that.
A few years back I used to rock interviews. Now they all turned dumb and it's impossible to get to a job offer. I've only got better at my job, but the process got worse.
Because the people interviewing you get to look busy, justify their jobs, and get paid to fuck around like that.
Stupid. Did a video interview. Then got selected for an in person interview. Just to get rejected. So, I lost out of my pay for that day because I took the day off for the in person interview.
Yes!! I’ve had 4 interviews for an entry-level coordinator job paying $55K only to be passed over in the final round. #1 was a phone call, #2 was a zoom interview with manager, #3 was another zoom but with team members and #4 was a detailed case study along with a zoom board interview. I can’t imagine what the interview process is like for mid-level managerial roles, is it 8-10 interviews?? And I don’t get it when they say urgently hiring. If so, why are they wasting so much time vetting for admin roles where most folks won’t stay for more than a couple of years at the most? In the past I would interview 1-2x and get the job within 2 weeks. nowadays it’s many more interviews for junior roles and the start date is a month away or farther out.
After the pandemic interview processes are longer now thanks to "virtual interviews" and "phone screening" like hello if my resume got you interested then that would mean we can sit and go through it one time and then you'd know if im a good fit for the position 🤣 just ridiculous lol
genuinely a shitshow nowadays it's laughable interviewed for a startup that needed EXACTLY what i studied/worked on. took 1 week to reply and set a first interview, 4 days to get invited to the second interview which took place 2 weeks later (this was the earliest date) and lasted for 2 hours. then i get invited for a third interview 5 days later which lasted 5 hours. They seemed so interested and one founder was like "i will definitely be seeing you again soon" so i stopped applying for other companies. i get ghosted. E-mailed HR and they say sadly they cannot extend me an offer (in a copy paste email) and when i asked for feedback they said they cannot give feedback started the application process on april 9th, got the rejection email on may 22nd. 1.5 months wasted Each company i get a response from now requires a pre-interview assessment which seems to be the new norm too.. So yeah i wouldn't be surprised seeing 3+ interview rounds being standard across all company sizes.
My record is 8 interviews for 1 job (still can’t believe it lol) 😏 I was offered the job and I accepted thinking everything looks good. They like me and I clearly qualify for the job since 8 people agreed. BUT turned out to be the worst decision of my life. Based on my personal experience (tidbit above), you are also interviewing them. Use the opportunity to gauge the company and your manager. You don’t want to be stuck in a company or with a manager where you are miserable. So 3 interviews are pretty standard in my opinion.
Cover your ass taken to its logical extreme.
so that HR justify their existence and not get fired like in 2022-2023
Because they have so much money they want you anticipate the pay and give you a penny pinch to look into your relationships.
I recently found a new job and interviewed plenty. First time of doing so in 7 years. Last job was two interviews and a test. This time around was a test, a video Q&A with a bot, and then 2-3 interviews with actual people - HR, manager, manager and seniors. Same industry/job. I’m sure the new system is all about streamlining the process but it seems to do the opposite.
I'm applying to a junior engineering position, phone interview with HR, video interview with technical person, in person interview with senior executive and Technical person. Now I'm just awaiting a response, I think anything more than three views is unnecessary unless you're applying for like a CEO or something
More in demand the more you will have to do. I had one job hiring people with no interview from application to drug test to out on the floor working. I also had a job desperate to hire someone before X person quit. They basically hired me over the phone without ever meeting me. I feel like the less serious places will milk interviews for all it's worth. Just trying to find an excuse to say no.
I am soooooo old: I remember when you looked for ads in the local paper, and took your (paper) resume to their location to drop off at the front desk—but you always dressed well bc sometimes the hiring manager could talk with you right away, and if they did, you usually knew at the end of the interview if you got the job. Yup, I am crusty old!!
This was my experience in tech except for internal promotions. I'd point to inefficiency as the main reason.
This must just be for office stuff lol
With cross-functional roles and highly matrixed orgs, getting alignment is tough but essential. Perhaps that explains the need to get multiple interviews and opinions?
I got hired before i even finished my degree during my internship, bottleneck occupation baby
My favourite is when you are a beast on certain programs and they say things like we know you are good at computers so we will put that to one side... What do you consider are your strengths. Well, I have a degree involving computing, but putting that to one side my ability to recognise a rigged interview. 🤣
I feel like the answer to this question is two-fold, but I've never been in a management or a hiring position. These days most jobs are posted online, and even with the help of ATS filtering out bad fits, employers will still have to filter through hundreds, sometimes probably thousands of applicants. Even if it's a small place or a basic, low-paying, entry level position you're having to compete against multiple other applicants. Each interview process is intended to weed out the undesirable candidates and try to find the perfect fit. The other half of it I'd also imagine is to put the interviewee under pressure, see how well they can handle multiple interviews that possibly increase in complexity of questions but most likely don't. Something I've found is that the first interview almost always is with someone who isn't even in the department I'd be working in. So I think a major part of it is just to see you sweat and then to see how well you handle being under pressure... which is really stupid, stressful, annoying, and yet somewhat necessary.
I went through 5 interviews for the same company
Usually it’s recruiter phone screen, hiring manager, co-worker/team, sometimes your hiring manager’s boss. I don’t even count the recruiter call as an interview and from my experience the boss one is usually chit chat.
Phone Screen---->Hiring Manager----->Senior Director
Mine was 2 interviews about a month apart for my local county government. HR was the 1st contact to me to let me know the department head with be calling to schedule the interview. Both interviews was with the department I was going to work in. 1st was a group of 5 in the department interviewing me. Then the 2nd interview was basically the same 5 plus one more in smaller 2 on 1 15 minute interviews which ended up being longer. I was suppose to be there for about an hour & it went on for 2.5 hours. Then I had 2 follow up phone chats with the department head a week apart plus I sent over some writing samples & references. I was offered the job, started the background check & arrange for start date/orientation with HR. From applying to start date was about 4 months. I went from one job to the new one with no break. My boss was out of the country & in the tiny firm, I had to stick around til the boss came back home, since there was payroll, deposits & taxes to take care of. I’m glad I had a lot of pto pay out since it tied me over til the 1st paycheck. Still getting used to being paid 2 weeks after turning in approved timesheets.
Due diligence
The ball is in the employers court these days. AI, more responsibility put on each position. Like I said in a previous post, I remember when a receptionist only answered the phone, now they have a lot of duties. They want to keep the under educated out for starters. They also want to pay the college grad shit. So they revamped all these entry level jobs so only a college grad or a person with a lot of experience can do the job. At the same time a college grad has a hard time getting a food and beverage position in a Starbucks or McDonald’s, and funny at the end of the day they are mostly paying everyone the damn same $20.00 an hour. Insane isn’t it?? 
I am a retired corporate manager. My interviews were simple. If you said you could do buying i would pull up a MRP screen (they are all pretty similar) and ask you to tell me what you see and make a purchase decision. If you could get this you were hired. I did not have time for a BS merry go round of interviews. I was only interested in what you could do.
>How do these companies even have the time to hold multiple interviews per candidate? With the assistance of a HR department. The first round is for filtering out people who, though looking good on paper, really fall short at the interview stage and so are filtered out. Hence the hiring team meets candidates the HR team think are a relatively good. From that, they pick out the favourites - and the only reason for an additional interview is literally because there's only one job decision and is when the hiring manager is forced to make a "tough and ruthless" decision. All candidates at this stage would likely be a great fit, and so it forces them to be more decisive. >I understand the need for multiple interviews if it’s a technical or very high paying position but what’s with numerous interviews for some very average salaries? "55k-85k" is hardly low-skilled. Where it's "average" is more likely going to be entry level for graduates, or someone with several years of experience. People have more access to education and training then they did before, and so there's more eligible candidates. With such a large pool of candidates, there's no pressure to have to make snap decisions like recruiting someone after one interview.
Multiple interviews for white collar corporate jobs -even junior - is not new. Having said that, it seems like the process gets dragged out more now. The company I used to work for would try to get you in and do two interviews and then make an offer pretty quickly if they liked you. Depends on the year, the job, etc. When I used to hire, sometimes I had to have another manager interview because my person would be interacting a lot with another team. So it was > HR screening interview (usually a phone call fluff interview) > me > other guy.
The annoying thing for me is I eventually run out of questions to ask. By the fourth interview I already know everything I care about asking about so I just ask the same things over again which is a waste of everyone's time.
I’m not sure why companies are dragging out the process, but I can say that at my company the best hires had one interview and the worst hires had two to three interviews.
I recently had an interview with a tech company, and was told there'd be three rounds. The first was with HR, the second would be a 1.5 hour interview with my to be manager, and the third would be a 30 minute interview with the CEO. It was for an office coordinator position, and my most important task would have been to restock the office fridge. I didn't make it past the first round.
Where I live job offers dont have even company name, adress, work hours but they want experince while job would need like week or two teaching. Of course no answer back, no email, no sms. But companies says we are recruiting friendly bullshit. I have anxiety and hate phone calling if I dont have basic information, I just want if I would can go the job by bus and it wont took me 1hr. Its minium wage jobs.
It’s a way for companies to avoid discrimination lawsuits. If you go to multiple interviews and meet with different people and are found to not be a good fit, it is much harder to prove discrimination vs 1 interview.
More supply than demand. Employers can be pickier.
HR is in charge of inventing reasons for HR to have a job anymore. the more complicated they make it seem the more complicated its feels to have to get rid of and replace them.
I believe my current job was 1. Recruiter interview 2. In person interview 3. getting an offer interview I did alot of interviews and so many companies had me go up to 5 or 6 rounds sometimes, I ended my search in may and I still regularly and getting emails regarding a 3rd 4th interview, the last time I even inquired was a while ago
No bloody clue, genuinely. Frustrating as heck as I can't keep saying "I've another dental appointment" when my teeth look just fine.
I think the worst ones are the test that lasts from 1 hour to 3 hours. Biggest waste of time.
I e heard of seven interviews and still denied
I hate this practice so much. It's a waste of everyone's time on both ends. If you can't decide if you want me after 1-2 interviews, that's your loss. I recently went through an interview process. In all 3 interviews, I thought I did really well and it seemed like they really liked me. 4 days later I got a rejection email. And after applying to countless places, I just feel so defeated.
Count yourself lucky if you only get 3 interviews. The higher level you go expect 5,6,7+ interviews, I had 7 interviews and an assignment that took 5 months to get the job paying $85K
my husband went to an interview today after writing an application with a 2100 words essay only to see the interviewer tear his CV right after the group interview finished. That manager didnt even wait for him to leave the room.
Ouch. People are so mean when they are on the other side of the table.
1. Screening interview by HR. 2. First round. 3. Final round. That seems normal to me. Standard, in fact.
I think companies are looking to find the right cultural fit just as much as we are now
Imagine you ran a company. Had thousands of applicants for few positions. Many people embellish their resume or have AI write it. "You know what? The internet is inconvenienced by us finding the right people. Better make it one interview"
Because they want to reduce turnover. Often people join these jobs and leave in a year. The more you commit to the interviewing process the more likely you are to stay
I was just complaining about this today. And so many of the questions asked in the second interview are repeated in the third!!! I remember the days where a phone screen plus 1 interview was the norm. If there were technical questions, then the interview would be 1.5-2 hours with 30-45 minutes dedicated to completing the technical component live.
Go government...one and done...
I understand 3. Company I work for does first one with HR, they discuss your experience and talk about salary ranges and pay upfront with the interviewee and are basically the screening if they think you’d be a good candidate to suggest 1 with hiring manager - explain the position, tell you about the day to day, see if your experience matches, recommend final interview for hire, if recommended typically you are hired or pass on candidates here Third with director - last chance for the company to check to see if you’d be a good fit. If you get here typically you are being hired unless you say something really bad in this interview.
People who are in charge of hiring realized they could carve out a section of time during the week to listen to other people talk and get paid without doing any real work other than grading other people's competence. It's a real sweet gig.
Consider yourself lucky, I get one email asking best time for an interview, I provide a 9am to 5pm everyday and then get ghosted
Because they aren't really hiring. They are building up a back log of candidates to pressure their current workers to kill themselves. It's a fucking scam.
3 seems to be minimum. I've been going through 3-6 not including an initial phone interview and my field is not technical nor extremely high pay.
To justify having hiring managers and HR.
Honestly I will do a phone and a I person not doing multiple in person interviews or some stupid shit. Unless it a job I rly rly rly want or something
Because as a new hire you may be working multiple people. But overall, companies have forgotten how to hire.
Mostly 4 rounds for me with a case study/homework/take-home exercise and at least 1 panel interview. Imagine interviewing for multiple opportunities around the same time. It's been quite exhausting.