I’m shocked that some large companies can make a hiring decision for a senior level employee ($150k+) from conversations totaling less than 2 hours in total. How do they do this?

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That’s like 95% more time then they will spend on your performance rating next year

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Could be your qualifications are already good enough, and/or hiring person at the firm knows someone who has worked with you before. The conversation is to see if you gel personality wise.

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Not their money...

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I had 3 meetings for a 240k position and got it. I would agree with you. Hiring must be structured.

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Laziness. Bad management. Should never happen. (That said, not sure why we should “expect” good management. Average at best would be a more realistic expectation level).

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How long does it take you to decide if you want to work with someone? Personally think most processes take way too long and involve far more people than necessary

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And the process that got most of us hired at consulting firms isn’t that much more in depth. Maybe 4 hours of interviews with 3 to 8 people...

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Or less... I literally had a 30 minute phone meeting with a partner, a 45 minute meeting with a director, and got an offer the next week.

Yea generally just bad management and the age old principal agent problem

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