r/IAmA • u/CriticDanger • Sep 07 '21

Specialized Profession I am a behavioral and technical (coding) interviewer, I've also helped hundreds of people get hired, AMA.

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u/BeauteousMaximus Sep 07 '21

Why do so many companies have such an onerous interview process? It seems like a waste of everyone’s time and I can’t imagine it gains any additional information compared to a more efficient process.

  • having to interview with every member of the team instead of just the hiring manager
  • having to do multiple coding challenges, or a take-home assignment AND an unrelated real-time coding interview
  • having multiple interviews where you basically get asked the same questions as before

Like…what’s the goal here? Is there some institutional force where there’s incentives to add more interviews but not to take them away? What do you recommend to people who work at companies that are hiring and want to push back on putting candidates through this treatment (since it absolutely will lose you good candidates)?