If you take 8 rounds to reject a candidate for STABILITY, maybe you don't know how to interview.
Actually you know what. Not MAYBE. NOT PROBABLY. You. Dont. Know. How. To. Interview. PERIOD.
What exactly were you doing in Rounds 1 through 7?
- Admiring their Zoom background?
- Evaluating their WiFi connection stability instead of their actual skills?
- Collecting meaningless INSIGHTS that lead to absolutely NOTHING?
And THEN, after dragging the candidate through this circus of incompetence, you wake up in Round 8 and go: "Hmmm, we're worried about their stability…" Are you serious??? At this point, WHO is actually unstable here? The candidate? Or the company that wasted two months to make a decision that should have taken 30 minutes?
If STABILITY was a concern, that should have been addressed DAY ONE. Not when the candidate has already spent HOURS playing your multi-level interview pacman.
You know what this tells me?
- You and your hiring team has no clue what you/they are looking for
- Your decision-makers are spineless. They can’t say NO early, so they drag it out until someone else does it for them
- Your process is BROKEN. It’s not THOROUGH.. it's a slow-motion car crash
The way I see it - "STABILITY" - a word that bends, twists, and shape-shifts depending on who's holding the mic. One day, it means loyalty. The next, it means adaptability. Then suddenly, it's being clueless. Then it's risk-taking, but not too much. And before you know it, it's just a lazy excuse to reject someone when you've run out of real reasons
Mull on that.
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I’m not an HR professional, so not defending anyone. But why do you feel anyone owes you anything? No one forced the candidate to appear for the interviews. It’s possible the 7th interviewer didn’t like the candidate or whatever. People need to stop believing that world owes them something.
Sometimes things just don’t work out and that’s it. Don’t mean shit. You ain’t that important brother. Move on.
Then they also should not complain if the candidate accepts their offer letter and goes and joins another company
It’s not about owing anyone anything, it’s about showing respect to each other’s time. 7 rounds of interview can be so tiring and exhausting, companies need to have better metrics and clear understanding of what they’re looking for in the candidate.
Similar thing happened with me. 5 rounds of interview for Staff position at a product based organisation. Their major concern was which they verbalised is that my technical skills are too good and their network is quite smaller than the scale i have worked on. They were worried that i will get bored of less challenging work compared to my skills. Salary was pretty high as well.
I got you @FreshRaita , you are the guy here to create some raita/tamasha to get some 🍇 on grapewine. I have been following you for the last few days and seeing this. You just put some random viral shit.
Same thing happened for me with paypal🥲 after rejecting in 7th round that hiring manager referred me to another team and asked me to go through the rounds of hell again!! I felt satisfied when I said NO to him😂
Same thing happened with me in Dream11. 2 mammoth assignments and 4 rounds of interview across 1 month then a generic mail of rejection by HR.
Honestly I'd beg to differ. While I was in college I interviewed for a top quality research lab in the valley and they took 6 rounds for an internship/ co-op position and then only to reject me because I was a master's student. Application mentioned PhD required but I had worked on relevant research. So, they were strongly considering me and it took them 5 technical rounds and one behavioural round to figure out what I lack. It was expectation and I agree. All the initial rounds included coding/cryptography related questions where I was talking to engineers and scientists. I was pretty articulate for them. To the hiring manager taking a behavioural round, it was evident that my lack of sufficient research experience (just 1-2 semesters and no peer reviewed publications yet) had caused a glaring difference in my expectation from the role and what role could offer me.
As someone who's actively interviewing and building 4 teams right now, I agree behavioural should be the last round. Most engineers have a degree but they're barely engineers. Even from tier 1 institutes. So, I'd want first filter to see if they can invert a binary tree or sort a linkedlist. That acts as a behavioural filter too because if you're a strong engineer and don't have enough ownership of your career to do 50-60 leetcode questions, you're not fit.
Subsequent rounds are real job related rounds and that's where leetcode maniacs get filtered and the last one is a behavioural round. It hurts me to see people getting rejected in the last round because we've wasted 7-8 hours of collective team time by then and that can be directly translated to money. But that's necessary because we can make an exception in behavioural shortcomings but not in technical shortcomings.
The way I think of it.. is we can defend any thing with logic.. fact is very less orgs play with logic. Don’t trust me - see the sentiment in the comments. Am happy that you are putting thought to it, question is - are all? Or majority doing the same?
I had 8 rounds with a company and then the HR asked for all documents to process the offer letter and then ghosted me. Beat this...