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Are bay area companies trying to tire candidates into submission?

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Re: Are bay area companies trying to tire candidates into submission?

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Do you really want to join a company after only 3 hours of conversations? Which company you join will have a huge impact on your future. You should do your due diligence as much as the hiring company does. Do I really want to spend the next few years of my life working alongside those people? When we were a small startup (10-20 people), we'd take candidates who we are making offers to for dinner. It's not quite an in…

> Do you really want to join a company after only 3 hours of conversations?

Right on! The more conversations with individuals in the organization actually works in your favor. You'll be able to compare and contrast priorities, vision, work flows, etc... Getting team buy-in is an important consideration for managers.

If the time commitment is a real issue for you-- share that with them. See if they're amenable to a Skype/phone conversation instead.

Re: Are bay area companies trying to tire candidates into submission?

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I used to be on the hiring committee at Google, and sometimes we'd ask for extra interviews if the person was very strong, but feedback was mixed in a particular area. For example, if a candidate bombed one algorithms question but performed strongly on an algorithms question from a different interviewer, then we might want a third data point. That happened for So I think b) and c) could be that process. a) sounds lik…

I find the interview process at Google/Facebook extremely disturbing for senior devs like author of Homebrew. Nobody can remember how to manipulate binary trees/linked lists/(un)directed graphs after working on real world projects for several years. Why can't you just interview like the rest of the industry? I understand some deadwood might get in this way; just simply fire'em after several months on the job. Netflix is an excellent example in this regard.
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