what’s the longest interview/recruitment process you’ve gone through? from first contact to offer?

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1 year 8 months.

Wish I was kidding.

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Seven months from first contact to offer

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24 hrs

First contact to offer? Two years lol

8 months, but it’s 2020

Remember the LinkedIn post the founder of GUT put out there about how he's been secretly interviewing someone for years now?

That. That's the longest.

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