Timeline for Reimbursed more than my travel expenses for interview
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| Dec 14, 2019 at 19:13 | comment | added | mxyzplk | "I've heard of..." many random made up things. | |
| Dec 13, 2019 at 5:31 | comment | added | user2943160 | Some people have no need to attend to their personal finances so closely to be concerned about $100 coming back from a reimbursement. Last time I had interview expenses reimbursed, I don't recall actually cross-checking the expense report with the ACH deposit the next week… | |
| Dec 12, 2019 at 22:11 | comment | added | Kevin | @computercarguy that's a very, very different situation though. Actively going out of your way to steal something vs. not noticing or caring about being overpaid. | |
| Dec 12, 2019 at 8:00 | comment | added | Sourav Ghosh | @Cruncher There are organization where attention to detail is one of the required criteria, and they would need/expect that to be a reflex action, not a work assignment. With all due respect to your choice, there's no point in generalizing. | |
| Dec 11, 2019 at 17:40 | comment | added | user3445853 | That is the kind of HR mindgames as "not hiring those that passed the interview, but didn't send a courtesy thank you for the interview"; but HR is usually a dystopian bunch, even in good companies. My take: Hiring you costs thousands (recruiters, flight booking, hours spent interviewing & discussing you all, and not working for clients; training new hire; risk of not working out and restarting; ... ); you interview the company (salary, perks, atmo, work, ... ) just as much; so this overpaying your effort (and unclaimed dry-cleaning, haircut, ... ) is a CHEAP signal of 'good employership'. | |
| Dec 11, 2019 at 0:21 | comment | added | Karl | Not hiring a fitting candidate that the company has just spend a lot of time, effort and money on for the sole reason that he overlooked that discrepancy (or simply hasn´t checked it yet) is a clear sign of an incompetent management with bad priorities. | |
| Dec 11, 2019 at 0:01 | comment | added | computercarguy | @Cruncher, my dad tells a story about him delivering and fixing appliances. He had one customer that would leave out 2-3 $100 bills in the open. If the money disappeared, the couple wouldn't use the company again. It's simple, maybe crude, but effective. It would not be a big enough red flag for me to not work for a company. There's too many other good reasons to work or not work for a company. | |
| Dec 10, 2019 at 22:18 | comment | added | Patrick Roberts | If it doesn't gauge honesty, then at least if nothing else it appears to gauge attention to detail ;) another desirable quality in job candidates | |
| Dec 10, 2019 at 21:16 | comment | added | Cruncher | Frankly I wouldn't want to work for a company that engaged in such tactics. Personally I wouldn't even care about the $216 it cost me to interview somewhere, and would really only be submitting the claim to avoid looking lazy. So I wouldn't really pay attention to the amount of the reimbursement and probably wouldn't even notice the extra $100. This is a terrible way of gauging someone's honesty | |
| Dec 10, 2019 at 16:48 | history | answered | gnasher729 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |