The reality is that if you know shit about your job, you will know if someone is a good fit in the first 10 minutes. If they suck, you will know it faster. It doesn't take hours and weeks to hire people, you just have to grow a set and be secure that you know your shit.

[–] BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Google has done studies and experiments with their hiring process and determined that after three interviews you aren't getting any more signal about candidate quality. Their internal interview training talks about this, I've read their reports and the methodology seemed pretty sound. Yet for some reason they still usually do five interviews. Why? I never did get a good answer for that.

[–] blargh513@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I'm going to do my favorite thing and blame HR. Useless lot of muppets they are. I have yet to work with an HRBP that was anything better than useless. Ask a question about worker rights in India or Singapore, get dumb looks and an empty promise to find out. Ask for support when hiring, yeah that is someone else, but we dont know who.

Time and time they just fail to deliver anything useful. I just cannot overstate how underwhelmed I am with the entire discipline. From the chronic laziness to the ingrained stupidity of them, I have no idea why they still exist. I don't even know how they buy groceries, pay their bills and walk upright. I presume they go back to a building where they are locked into a case, hoses attached to feed and extract waste while they just stare into the middle distance. They dont need to be sedated or entertained as they dont know or care about the process. They just exist.

[–] other_cat@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 hours ago

Second everything you said, good god. If I ask HR a question I'm lucky to hear back in a week if at all. They ask us to sign shit, I sign it, they ask me to sign the same shit I signed because nobody checked their inbox for my reply.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 10 points 19 hours ago

I've seen this and the other extreme, like at my current job. We hire basically anyone, overlooking obvious flaws, then give them a basically blank check for fucking up. I don't know why no one can get the balance right. Don't hire just anyone, but also don't grill the living shit out of the candidate! A single one hour interview is probably enough, but also don't be so forgiving that anything off about the candidate needs to be noticed by everyone on the hiring panel to matter.