[petesalty]

Hiring fast is actually really important. It sets a really good tone with candidates and forces you to have a hiring process with good decision points and processes.

At Voxy we had a 1 week turn around goal from receiving a resume to having on offer on the table. Didn't always work out like that because of candidates, and vacations and what not, but that was the goal. The day of last interviews we either said no thanks that night, or got the offer out.

[pjmorris]

Anec-data to your point: The two best companies I've worked for made their offers at the end of the interview day.

[__derek__]

How did they go about doing that? It seems like it would be very difficult to avoid pressuring someone to decide on the spot. When that's not the intent (i.e. when the company respects a person's right to think about the offer), it seems like that risks becoming an uncomfortable situation.

[pjmorris]

The offer was made: they didn't require an immediate response. They had refined their decision process, they didn't constrain my decision process beyond what's customary.

[__derek__]

Cool. So they just said, "Hey, we would like to offer you the job. Here are the details. Please take your time and let us know when you've made a decision"?

[pjmorris]

That's right, although they said something like 'Please decide within the week' or something to that effect. I'd have to dig up old, old paperwork to get the exact phrasing, but it wasn't 'Hey dude, it's chill, whenever you make up your mind'

[__derek__]

Ha! Right, right. Good on them, and thanks for indulging me.

[bbcbasic]

Sounds super-professional.

[swayvil]

you successfully censored the story about that giant censorship engine.

[user5994461]

I just want to add. We provide instant feedback at my company too.

We just requite an immediate answer thought. We just tell the result and we send an offer letter the next day.

[pmyjavec]

Very good point, it's very off putting this 3 month or longer hiring process. Definitely screws with your expectations of the company.

The weird thing is most of my applications lately seem to be going that slowly. It's especially frustrating from my end as I could be delivering and providing value instead of waiting for an offer.

I've actually started working on my own products just because people are too slow :)

[jschwartzi]

A 3-month hiring process would make me think there's a lot of bureaucracy that would interfere with things like getting work done and making a good product.

[vonmoltke]

While admirable, doesn't that strongly bias Voxy to local candidates?