re: Interview Follow Up Timeline

Sounds like you don't want to be in group a.

That's why I hate interviews. The nessesity of using catch words and hitting the proper formalities sucks. Like asking the question "what are the keys to being successful with this company?" Same as every fricking company. Do your job, dont be a dickhead, work hard and overachieve. And I'm going to do it, probably better than anybody you have here. Why do we have to act like this is some fantastic magical company different and FARRRRR better than every other one out there?

Nevertheless we must all play the game and hit the high notes.

My favorite question I was asked by the VP: “What does this role mean to you?”

I pretty much gave the position description. And was like “That’s pretty much how it was described to me by X”

I don’t exactly understand what the point of that was.

None of the VPs questions made sense or were in a conversational tone.

On some level, if that’s how they treat talent they are recruiting- it makes me not want to join the actual team.

If a high level position that you’ve committed extensive time interviewing for - a simple “hey we are a little behind, but will update you next week” goes a long way instead of radio silence

I was a finalist against 1 internal candidate recently... initial screening interview was supposed to be 30-45 and ran 90mins midday which is always tough, and then final round was 4+ hours all in making me take a day off to complete (on 2 days notice).... and then a full month later I got the one sentence email turn down after no reply to 2(?) followups.

That it was a candidate they 100% knew and just me from outside and it was handled that poorly made me glad I wasn’t working there.

That’s fine but it’s a dumbass question. I’m at the Director level going into a new line of business with them. I only know what the frick is on the job description and what it’s explained to me. frick them if they want more than that.

I will frick you up you old Mexican twat

I will wrestle you in the quad

Every company is different.

I’m interviewing with 4 companies right now and each is wildly different in their approach.

Company A is often considered the best in the business. They called me up. I spoke with the manager. Next day brought me in for 9 interviews. I expect to hear by Tuesday at the latest. The whole process will have been maybe a month from initial application but the interview aspect has been happening for the last 3 Days. They are moving super fast.

I was referred to company B which is a much smaller but still worldwide firm. They were moving extremely quick until I did the first interview and there was somewhat of an odd day of interviews as each side was expecting something else. I was expecting the job to be less..... manual calculations and their job did 100% manual calculations. After that, they fell off for awhile but reached back out two weeks later for round two. Process has been happening since the start of April.

Company C I applied to 6 fricking months ago and they just reached out for the first round of interviews. They are in serious trouble of being too late.

Company D literially only called me up to tell me, “you are being considered.”

And I know that I have some applications that have been “under consideration” for some other firms for months.

I hate job searches and I’m super paranoid I’m going to screw this up.

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That's fine but they need to be upfront.

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This is all people ask for. I understand they have to do what is in their best interest, but when it comes to someone's job I don't understand why so many HR departments bullshite people.

While I know they don't want to tell a potential new hire certain information because they want them to still have interest in the job, it seems like it can work both ways. Like I mentioned in my above post, I just don't understand some of these processes when it comes to filling open positions.