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by eshvk 3391 days ago
> go after normal business hours

Think about it from the other perspective, you want to do an interview after normal business hours. This means that a recruiter, several engineers and a culture interviewer have to also be present after work hours. Now scale this up to a few dozen candidates; I wouldn't want to work in a place that does this on the regular.
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flukus 3391 days ago
> This means that a recruiter, several engineers and a culture interviewer have to also be present after work hours

Well no, there doesn't have to be that many people in the interview, especially the first one. I've never heard of recruiters being there for the interview at all.

> I wouldn't want to work in a place that does this on the regular.

Depends, some might allow the interviewers to start late or to take an time in lieu after several interviews.

I'd prefer more interviews to be after hours, otherwise it's too hard to look for jobs when you already have one.

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eshvk 3390 days ago
> Well no, there doesn't have to be that many people in the interview, especially the first one. I've never heard of recruiters being there for the interview at all.

The recruiter's job is to make sure the candidate gets to the right office room in time; makes sure that if an engineer drops out that there is someone else to pick up the slack. Also, if the candidate has a public freakout or decides to get nosy and peek at someone's computers, it is their job to be nice and navigate the candidate to a more appropriate scenario.

> Depends, some might allow the interviewers to start late

My point is this doesn't scale beyond a certain point. I have complete sympathy for job seekers but I think you are underestimating the amount of grievance that can builds up when one is forced to interview you. As a potential interviewee, I'd bite the bullet, do enough preliminary talks/coffees to figure out if this is what I really want and then go interview at a time that is mutually convenient.

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flukus 3390 days ago
I've never seen or heard of a recruiter doing that. Is this an internal recruiter of some sort?
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