[appleiigs]

> no company is going to drag candidates through interviews for jobs that don’t exist

This happens all the time. The team will have an internal candidate they want, but HR dept is worried about optics of fairness, so the team is forced to put on a show by interviewing people who have no chance of being hired.

[mariosisters]

I have heard this but as I’ve only worked at startups I’ve never seen it play out in real life. How common is it that it happens “all the time”? Only at bigcorps?

[appleiigs]

It's an HR thing, so if not large enough to have HR bureaucracy probably not common.