Woah, we got a badass over here. Seriously they have 1,000 other qualified candidates lined up right behind you. I'm sure they appreciate your time and then end the interview.
I also think this comes across as someone being pretentious and arrogant, and could be a no-hire, but there’s a nugget of truth in this: interviews are two-way streets, and getting a feel for your coworkers and your environment can be as important as landing the job.
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> Seriously they have 1,000 other qualified candidates lined up right behind you.
I’d kill to have ten qualified candidates to interview. It’s a seller’s market.
As an interviewer I've given you a heads up before the meeting what is being tested for. Some time to practice, do pre-work, research the company, etc.
Dumping at the start of that meeting out of the blue this criteria, is not a two-way street equal reciprocation of that respect. If you'd kill for ten candidates, you can have him. I've had ~230 for 2 position this week and I'm testing for EQ also. Maybe changing requirements on people at the last minute fits in your work culture.
~250 Candidates? Sure mate, I'd be surprised if at the end of your application process 5 of them remain and are still available.
Companies are having a very hard time finding software engineers. For the first time in the history of the market, employee retention budgets are skyrocketing because recruiting is so expensive and hard. It's not rare to hear software engineers getting a sudden 30% raise out of the blue.
Because they know we're in high demand, and they know that if we switch jobs we'll get a 30% raise, at a minimum.
If you truly have a position that is averaging 100 applicants, you are hiring on the margins.
You either have a position that is so elite and aspirational that it is paid accordingly and people are flocking to it - and good luck filtering out the majority of resumes that Dunning-Krugered their way into your inbox before the elite candidate moves on. Or, you have a position with requirements so low that you can easily get candidates by the bucketful and take your time to sift through to find a diamond.
Sounds like you should open a recruiting and placement agency if you have 1,000 of what everyone else is searching for high and low with limited success.
I'm not a badass, I am just laying out a baseline: I know what I'm talking about. That's all. And no, many companies don't have 1k applicants that are qualified. They have 5000 applicants in the SF area, 4900 of them are unqualified, 80 who are qualified can't write English, of the remaining 20 candidates only 8 are still on the market once you reach them, 4 pass your filters, 2 accept a job offer, and only 1 of them shows up.
That's far more realistic. In today's world, we're not looking for jobs, jobs are looking for us. Desperately so.
