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I have long said with my customers that the #1 job of the interview loop is to answer the following question: can this candidate do this job at this company and likely exceed expectations?

It's surprising how many companies are bad at the interviewing process. How bad they are at the eval process (resume and interviews). It's still giving vitamin and not painkiller vibes though.

I have been working in this space for the last few years as an indie hacker solopreneur. I'm currently working through customer discovery on this exact problem (eval candidates more effectively) and if you (or a delegate) could make time, I would really appreciate it.

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> It's surprising how many companies are bad at the interviewing process.

Some companies have such unrealistic expectations too. Here's one from a company that I bailed out of. Would have been an interesting company, I think, but not world-changing.

This is literally how they described their process:

Phase 1: Initial conversations

- 30 minute recruiter screen

- 60 minute resume deep dive

Phase 2: Interviews

- 15 minute hiring manager screen

- 2 x 45 minute engineering

- 60 minute overview of your past projects, including presentation

Phase 3: Further interviews

- 30 minute second interview with hiring manager

- 30 minute values interview

- 30 minute leadership interview

- "additional interviews as required for position"

I bailed out of a similar set:

- 30 minute recruiter call/discussion

- 50 minute l33t code

- 50 minute systems design

- 30 minute in-depth presentation to a committee

- 4-6x 45 minute group interviews covering l33tcode and system design as well as my presentation

By the time I would have been done with this it would have taken basically a day of real time not to mention prep work for the presentation and every other interview.

The pay was good but not life changing.

"60 minute overview of your past projects, including presentation" is so completely insane - is this a thesis defense for a phd, or a job application?

I love the eval parallel...

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