Ask HN: Your Worst Hiring Experience
1. Worst hiring experience (or best hiring experience)
2. What made it so?
3. If you could have designed your ideal hiring experience what would it have looked like?
2. What made it so?
3. If you could have designed your ideal hiring experience what would it have looked like?
First, the worst hiring experience: I interviewed in February. Not a phone screen - a full, in-person interview. It went well. But then the company had a hiring freeze. I was hired in, IIRC, September. Six months from interview to offer. That was not particularly anybody's fault, but the circumstances worked out badly.
Second, the worst on-boarding experience: On Monday, I got a cubicle and a badge. On Tuesday, I got a trash can. On Wednesday, I got a computer. On Thursday, I got network access. Why was it that way? Because the hiring manager was on vacation the week I started, and forgot to delegate the job of getting me set up to someone else.