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A friend of mine went through 7 rounds of interviews for a senior position in a tech company.
The sixth round was actual work, coming up with a preliminary plan for their first 90 days at the company in the position. It took them about a week to pull together and finalize.
The last round was a 15 minute discussion with one of the founders (who has since moved to the board and isn't involved in the day-to-day any more).
About 30 minutes later they got a call from the recruiter saying they "weren't a good personality fit with the founder" and they offered the role to somebody else.
And so they took that plan they made, locked it away, and never implemented any of it since that would be stealing, right? They definitely didn’t just take it and use it for free, right?
Wow, that is pretty annoying. It might have been something minor in the end because they couldn't decide between the two top candidates, but still ...
Yeah something minor like the candidate wasn't the nephew of the CEO.
Yup - but still. That should have happened before the big final "show us how you work" interview.
If not, then the founder should have been in those interviews.
I worked for a place where the CEO had a big hard on for saying we were "data driven". He also rejected my friend as a candidate in the final round based on vibes (as far as we could tell)
7 rounds is way beyond insane. I've done 3 and 4 only to lose out to "a better fit."
I just accepted an offer after a referral and a 30min interview with the hiring manager. That's it.
It's not with a VC funded company, which I count as a plus. Fewer circlejerking bike shedders.
Bike shedders? Bike shedding had an explanation wikipedia, if that's the phrase you meant to pull from. It's a new term for a concept I'm familiar with. I like it.
I've never been near VC companies, so I can only imagine how much of it happens there compared to elsewhere.
Yeah, I bastardized the term pretty badly.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
It's like a weird idea factory where 26 year olds who still don't understand how the world turns go down rabbit holes to hone thoughts to weird points, and then gatekeep the whole thing. It was good money and I learned some stuff, but holy shit I wouldn't go back.
Because they're getting good money, they believe they're doing it all for themselves and improving the world.
Sweet summer children.
I don't think you bastardized it. It's becoming standard 'english' to manipulate participles and verbs into nouns by adding the 'er,' which makes me exceptionally grumpy in some crosswords. I just couldn't find anything that said 'bike shedder' specifically so I wanted to make sure.
7 rounds is way beyond insane. I’ve done 3 and 4 only to lose out to “a better fit.”
Way it works where I live is they had a relative in mind the whole time but still had to pretend to go through the motions of hiring.
Let me guess... they took the plan implemented it and 90 days later do the whole process again with someone else. Basically, they never hire anyone and get free work.