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Today marks twice in two months that companies have given a job to someone else after I got a thumbs up from everyone at every stage of their multi-week interview process.

What if we stopped making interviews an endurance race? I mean, even ignoring the value of my time, this must cost them 4 or 5 thousand dollars per candidate. If companies invested even half this much time in their onboarding, they would just never make a "bad" hire.

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@Jenniferplusplus The whole hiring process amounts to little more than corporate astrology and I wonder why everyone keeps falling for it.
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@jec I would call it hazing, actually. And hazing is its own purpose.
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Scare quotes on "bad" hire, because there's almost no such thing. People just do not apply for jobs that they're wholly incapable of doing. Certainly not at the rate that would justify this expense or treatment of people. Especially given how easy that is to identify.

So if companies are finding that people routinely come into their environment and fail, they should really fix the environment, not the people.

And if they somehow do get lots of unqualified candidates, maybe they should stop favoring cishet white dudes?

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