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What's the best interview process you've experienced? (programming.dev)

submitted 10 months ago by swordsmanluke@programming.dev to c/ask_experienced_devs@programming.dev

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I've interviewed for and been interviewed by companies large and small. We all know software engineer job interviews suck. But it's hard on the other side of the table too.

One of the better places I worked for had a lightweight process of one phone screen and a four hour on-site. The company also prepared offers before the on-site interview round.

When you finished interviewing, you got a same-day yes or no answer, and if it was yes, you had the offer in your inbox within an hour.

What interview practices have you found effective?

... And by what metric?

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[–] vojel@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago

Besides that I start to thinkig about quitting my actual job, it was indeed the interview process for the job where I am atm. My boss is a cool dude, like a good buddy you can talk openly to. No shit show, no buzz words, just straigt "that's the job, take it or leave it' - I took it and it was fine for a good time. Worst I got was 3 (THREE!!) interviews for a position as a DevOps Engineer for a big company, people were nice but it took them about 6 to 7 weeks to make me an offer, I refused because they were sooooo slow.