Timeline for What are the benefits of having a prospective employee spend the entire day in an interview?
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| Mar 28, 2022 at 4:44 | comment | added | Alexander The 1st | Also, interviewers don't have time to discuss outside of the interview itself what parts of an interview stood out, and whether someone else on the team might want to ask a follow-up question - especially without burning the interviewee's time while discussing that. So a follow-up technical interviewer won't ask the same technical questions, or perhaps they want to verify that you'd give a similar answer more than once. | |
| May 1, 2013 at 21:26 | comment | added | Dunk | You left off the key reason for the day long interviews, in particular at larger companies, that the interviewee may be interviewing for a role on more than one project or department. Thus, each project/dept. may have 1 or 2 people interview the candidate. So while project/dept. A may not think the interviewee is a good fit, project/dept. B may think the interviewee fits their needs exactly. | |
| Apr 29, 2013 at 16:29 | comment | added | SQLSavant | @HLGEM - You should remember that the interview process isn't solely based around the company seeing if you fit the criteria. It's also an opportunity for the interviewee to gather their perspective on what the company is like and if it fits what they're looking for, it's two-fold. That perspective can rarely be achieved in an hour long interview, at least to an extent worth mentioning. | |
| Apr 26, 2013 at 15:38 | comment | added | Justin Cave | @HLGEM - Obviously, an employed candidate has to consider whether a particular position is interesting enough to use up a personal day to attend the interview. I'd expect that it's pretty unusual that a candidate would find positions at 5 different companies interesting enough to be worth an all-day interview and that all 5 companies would want an all-day interview and that they would all be at more or less the same stage in the hiring process that you'd get 5 interviews in 2 weeks and that they'd all be interested in the candidate. For the candidate, that seems like a good problem to have. | |
| Apr 26, 2013 at 15:31 | comment | added | HLGEM | If you are looking for a new job, it could be more like 5 days off in two weeks. | |
| Apr 26, 2013 at 15:25 | comment | added | Justin Cave | @HLGEM - I'm not expressing a position on whether companies should do it, I'm stating why companies do it. As for folks currently employed, I don't see why there would be any greater impact on the project if someone took a personal day to go on an interview vs. taking a personal day for any other personal reason (other than the obvious problem if they decide to leave but that is unrelated to the length of the interview). Presumably, folks in positions of responsibility have the ability to take a day off from time to time. | |
| Apr 26, 2013 at 15:17 | comment | added | HLGEM | It doesn't make it harder on the currently employed, it makes it impossible if they have a responsible postion and intend to fulfill those reponsiblities until they leave. If you think companies should do this then you think your own employees would take as many unplanned days off as they want when they search for new postions. Doesn't that havea project impact? | |
| Apr 26, 2013 at 14:08 | comment | added | Justin Cave | @HLGEM - You can, sure. But if you only allocate an hour, each interviewer only gets a few minutes to ask their questions which may be barely enough to deal with one non-trivial technical question each. Of course, it does make it harder on those that are looking for work while currently employed. | |
| Apr 26, 2013 at 13:49 | comment | added | HLGEM | You can have multiple people interview in a one-hour interview. It's called a hiring panel. All day is only acceptable for unemployed candidates. The rest of us still have work to do. | |
| Apr 25, 2013 at 20:16 | history | edited | Justin Cave | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 25, 2013 at 19:31 | history | answered | Justin Cave | CC BY-SA 3.0 |