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.