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I find it weird that the US seems to have more interview rounds than most countries, despite it being the place where it's easiest to fire people for not meeting expectations.

At my last job it was just the HR interview and an interview with my prospective boss, but my boss' idea of an interview was to make me take a lengthy, ridiculous test he designed himself that was mostly questions he could have just asked me, including a bunch of weird lateral thinking questions cribbed from "This Google interview question will stump you" clickbait, plus intentional interruptions during the test to see how I handled the unexpected.

I felt kind of insulted by it but I'm glad I stuck it out, because he turned out to be a great boss, who just happens to have strange ideas about interviewing.

They're not trying to hire talent. They're trying to hire people who will do whatever you tell them to do.

If the company can't put the interviews into a single 3-hour visit, that's a red flag to me. And even three hours is too long, should be an hour max, but whatever, I understand that the bosses all have busy schedules, so what can you do.

If there are more than 2 interviews, then the hiring process isn't designed for you.

It's designed to populate the schedules of other people so they can justify their positions. It's a problem with increasingly larger portions of the corporate world.

Mine have all been 3. Phone screen, phone interview, and in-person.

If it's more than 2 it doesn't matter. I already picked up another offer by the time you get around to finding a date.

Beyond 2 interviews, the point is not to test you. It is to make you feel small.

Alot of it comes from every layer of management adding on shit. So HR wants a "Culture" interview, The org mandates a specific system design interview. Project manager wants to interview the high level candidate for leadership skills, then ontop of that the team itself wants a panel aswell as an interview for specific domain experience. Usually my company tries to group it all into one or two days

They get 2 interviews at most from me if there isn’t a panel or skills interview they told me about in that process. I had a prospective job try to schedule a 3rd general interview once, with no panel/skills in the process, and I asked them what more they needed to deliberate on. I heard them out about their reasoning and told them that it was clear to me they are wasting my time, hung up, and moved on. I’m not going to answer the same dipshit interview questions over and over for the same crap job that’s going to underpay and overwork me.

Right this is the first time I've had to do 3 interviews for a job. Fuck. Before that it was either you were hired or told you'll hear back. Not this having to meet everybody and their mom by the third fuckin ~~date~~ interview, not only that but what if they don't get you? You wasted time and gas they ain't gonna pay for.

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