Design 'Tests'

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  • qoob2

    What I find kind of amazing is how long and convoluted the job application process is these days. When I was looking for a job a couple years ago I applied at a big Silicon Valley company. It took them three weeks after I applied to get back to me. Did a one hour phone interview. Two weeks after that, they ask me to do a design test which involves designing a touch screen application. I spend a couple days doing the test, send it to them, then two weeks later they get back to me. Test went well and they want to interview. They fly me down to CA, I do a day of interviews (interview w/five different people), and at the last interview it comes up that they want to hire me for a different location than the one I want to work at. The entire thing takes over a month and it was a waste of time for both of us.

    I feel like the people who are overpaid are the HR people. They've created this massive bureaucratic process but it's far from clear that it actually produces better results.

    • this.Krassy
    • That's a colossal waste of time for everyone involved. I believe most HR people are an impediment to the hiring process. Most are utterly out of touch and relybort
    • on black and white formula for decision making.bort

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