[arcanus]

> All in all, would do again, except not more than 1 a month because flying across a continent and back for 1.5 days is gruelling.

This is part of the problem. Aside from college graduates, who has time to fly around the country burning vacation time to maybe get an offer?

[cbanek]

On the other hand, would you really accept an offer without having at least met the people you'd have to work with? Especially if you have to move across the country?

[psyc]

Video chat is good enough for me. I don't need to know about their posture or how long their legs are.

[cbanek]

This might just be me, but video chat doesn't really do it. You don't get an idea of the building, bathrooms, cafeteria, and the general idea of how often your coworkers bathe.

All of these can be pretty important to my general mental health.

[bdavisx]

Yes, and they could easily hide a noisy, chaotic work environment in a video chat as well.

[misthop]

I wouldn't, no. But in the 2 situations where I have been asked to fly to a company I said I would be happy to once I had an offer of employment. Both did remote interviews and extended an offer.