One Way to Not Piss Off Interview Candidates

After going through all the steps with a big corp, I was "offered" to do an additional interview if I wanted to be assessed at my current level (they leveled me lower). I stood my ground and respectfully declined, and eventually they made me an offer for the correct level. What I learned the hard way was that you need at least one more competing offer, otherwise you won't have any leverage.

Pro tip: don't stand up the candidate, as happened to my gf at Youtube on Friday. She showed up, signed in, but the recruiter never showed up.

So much diagrams with made up data. It's like ... it's OK to make up things just because it not falsifiable. Who could have thought?

"Onsite interview (high effort): The candidate goes onsite for a day of interviews at the company."

You don't have to interview for a day, silly.

"Often, resumes are screened in a few minutes (or seconds!)"

Jesus, throw a dice instead.

How about this process.

* Post ad.

* Pick 4 candidates and bring to your office. (Throw a dice to filter resumes out if they are too many).

* Interview them for 1h and give a offer to the best candidate. If he declines, give offer to 2nd best and so on.

> One way

That’s actually four ways. But they’re all good.