The cardinals didn't have to weed through 1000's of AI generated resumes of people who don't really exist. Lol
this post was submitted on 20 May 2025
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Sounds like the HR department needs to be locked together in a room with nothing to eat but bread and water.
This is always the case
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.
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)
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 ...
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Harvard(?) has done studies that the odds of successfully choosing a candidate via the standard interview process is no better than picking names out of a hat.
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Promoting within the company is always faster…
Why are people comparing this to a new hire? Apples and oranges people.
And even outside of the company, I bet it would be significantly faster to hire someone if all the candidates were locked in a office room with the interviewers until a candidate was picked.
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I had 5 rounds of interviews for a Tier 1 IT job.