Yeah, I would think that’s the sort of think you’d want to be thorough about.
Is it in Sector 7-G?
D’oh!
You don’t. They are allowed to apply confidentially so that it won’t affect their current job if they don’t get the new one. I was SOME PISSED when I heard that my “confidential” application was mentioned to my current boss.
And yes, at our company we have to have the same interview schedule for all applicants so that the process is as fair as possible.
I don’t do behavioral interviews anymore ever since I was dumb enough to go to one for a potential job many years ago. I should have known something was wrong when they called me for not one but two phone interviews that suddenly took a turn for the worst when they turned the tables and started asking extremely detailed technical questions with no friendliness or warning. I passed those so they invited me for an on site interview. Now, I don’t want to hint who this piece of shit and abusive company is but it rhymes with Capital One (the incredibly shady but very large bank headquartered in Virginia).
I was invited to an on site interview for a half day which I thought was excessive at the time. That was just a ruse however. They invited several of us that passed the phone screening to go through there own behavioral interview process. I don’t know if many of the people here have ever been through a true behavioral interview. They aren’t conversational at all. The interviewer simply reads a scenario that you may or may not have experienced and you have to talk through it for a specific amount of time (usually about 5 minutes) with no other feedback. If you are done early or don’t have any example of the weird things they are asking, you just have to sit there until the time expires with the interviewer staring at you the whole time. Then, you move on to the next interviewer who does the same thing. Repeat for several hours. Try it yourself sometime. It is extremely unnerving and it tells them nothing of use about job performance but it gives some sadists a nice release.
Somehow, I made it through the whole days abuse for those rounds and then they informed me that I made it but other people had too so we had to compete the next day for an even more intense round. No thanks and fuck you very much. I have no idea who these people think they are but I already had money and I am never going going to be treated that way ever again.
I interview a lot of people as part of my current and previous jobs. I am always friendly, keep it conversational and go out of my way to give them a chance to show me what the can do with no predetermined set of perfect answers because there is always more than one way to achieve a goal. I absolutely refuse to give behavioral interviews for the same reasons that I don’t work in a concentration camp. I have also learned that any place that has excessive or abusive interviewing practices probably isn’t a place that you want to work at in the first place. I have worked for some of the most successful companies in the world and their interviewing practices were insightful but kind. Abusive interviewing practices are for the wannabees.
Good luck.
How well do you know the people in this group and how well do they know you? If very well then a three hour interview would be excessive. If not much, then it would be a bit more reasonable.
But one is better.
We once got stuck with a real loser after a layoff at his location. (I wasn’t involved transferring the guy, but I later got stuck with him.) His manager lied about his competence, so after that I’m a lot more in favor of relatively long internal interviews.
I think they learned that one from used car salesmen. The special offer that only the closer can make.
Your mate doesn’t ask for any more exotic salary and thinks he is special enough to tell his friends the story. Nothing saves you money on salaries as much as making staff feel “valued.”
And good luck** Leaffan**. Imagine just how impressive you can be with 3 hours to let them get to know you.
Well, I had the interview yesterday, and it was only a 40 minute round-table exercise with 3 people. Of course I think I did well, although I struggled with the very final question, but what the hey.
Fingers crossed. Hang tight.
Hmmmm…rhymes with Capitol One (the incredibly shady but very large bank headquartered in Virginia). Hmmmm…
Nope, drawing a blank. Could you just give us another hint?
OP here: I just got back-stabbed by my current manager today. I really need this new position.
Oh, good luck. My job has turned into an utter shitshow with literally two weeks shitshow-notice, and I’m crossing my fingers that my ticket out at my dad’s old company is going to ever show up. So I feel your pain.
applies large bandage to Leaffan’s back I hope you get it, for the sake of your sanity as well as your back.
I guess the Ides of March gave two weeks notice first!
Hope things still work out.
I did not have a 3-hour interview, but I had to meet with 10 (!) different people in order to get my current job, an internal position that was not a promotion. Big companies are ridiculous.
Well, it has been three weeks since the interview. You must have some info or insights. Please share them Leaffan. We are on the edge of our seats!
And good luck!
3 days since the interview. Not 3 weeks.
Update:
I got the damned job. Things move slowly around here. The letter of offer will come next week.
I couldn’t be more chuffed, for a number of reasons.
I can’t wait to get away from the hell that is currently my job.
Big sigh of relief.
Felicidades! Thanks for the update. Been wondering how it was going.
Glacier speed up north.
Apparently.