Ask HN: Whats been your experience in interviewing noawadays

#1

Post by a_lifters_life » Wed, Mar 20, 2024, 1:07 PM UTC

If a company wants you - how long after the last interview did it take to extend an offer or deny you?

Please state the role, and extend/length.

Thank you

Re: Ask HN: Whats been your experience in interviewing noawadays

#2

Post by a_lifters_life » Wed, Mar 20, 2024, 1:08 PM UTC

I'll start -

Sr AppSec Engr role - last interview friday, sent thank you email to recruiter monday, he responded tues saying he would see if the hiring mgr has an update....... so idk.

Re: Ask HN: Whats been your experience in interviewing noawadays

#3

Post by Peroni » Wed, Mar 20, 2024, 2:55 PM UTC

>how long after the last interview did it take to extend an offer or deny you?

If you're certain your last interview was a final interview, you should ideally hear something within 24hrs. Allowing up to 48hrs is polite. Anything beyond that it is 100% reasonable for you to reach out to them and ask for an update.

Re: Ask HN: Whats been your experience in interviewing noawadays

#4

Post by piterrro » Wed, Mar 20, 2024, 5:40 PM UTC

Its like dating, if the other party is interested in you, they will reach out.

By reaching out to them, you may look like a desparate, which can lower your chances during negotitation stage (that would point them that you are only in a process with them).

Unless you are involved in more than one process that you try to keep in sync (useful for negotiation strategy) I would not reach out first.

Re: Ask HN: Whats been your experience in interviewing noawadays

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Mar 20, 2024, 5:56 PM UTC

piterrro wrote: post #4

Its like dating, if the other party is interested in you, they will reach out. By reaching out to them, you may look like a desparate, which can lower your chances during negotitation stage (that would point them that you are only in a process with them). Unless you are involved in more than one process that you try to keep in sync (useful for negotiation strategy) I would not reach out first.

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Re: Ask HN: Whats been your experience in interviewing noawadays

#6

Post by VirusNewbie » Wed, Mar 20, 2024, 6:06 PM UTC

My current FAANG job I applied in March of 2022 and was sent an offer in October of 2022. Senior software engineer, and there was a hiring freeze in the middle of that.

I was also interviewing other places and it generally took at least two months to do a full interview loop before I got to the offer stage or rejected (I didn't fail any screens).

These were all FAANG and adjacent companies though, this last round of job hoping I decided to try huge companies only.

Startups usually move much quicker if they have headcount.