[realusername]

> There is absolutely no upside to doing a good job, and it takes a lot of time to do so.

I've also learned this the hard way. I've conducted about a 100 interviews in 2 years and didn't get compensated any for it despite being one of the most critical part of the company.

Conducting interviews is also very tiring and time consuming, I'm estimating that two interviews in a day and your day is gone. I also evaluate it 2x more tiring than coding personally.

It wasn't a complete waste of time though, I got a lot of experience from that which will be very valuable in future management positions.

[1920musicman]

I have the same experience. Interviews are very time consuming (prep 30 min, interview 1h, fill out the feedback form 30m-1h), and having several interviews each week means I spend ~1 day weekly on something that's not going to benefit me directly in any way (excluding the benefit of potentially working with good engineers I helped hiring).

So unless the incentives change, I don't see this process improving in big tech.

[realusername]

Yes exactly, the interview itself is a bit less than half of the work surprisingly and then you do need a real break after all of that very intense concentration anyways. 1 interview = roughly half a day gone, that's what I've experienced.

And then it's indeed never valued inside the company, worse than that, it might be counted against you since you will achieve less in your team where all the evaluation will take place...

I really don't understand why companies don't value engineers capable of conducting interviews because it's really not an easy task, you need much better than average interpersonal skills and much better than average tech knowledge as well.

[1920musicman]

Agreed. I mostly conduct system design interviews which already have a smaller pool of interviewers at my company. This contribution has been included exactly zero times in the countless review cycles I went through.

[varispeed]

> and didn't get compensated any for it

So why would you do it? Such a big red flag. It means that employers will expect doing work for free (in some countries this is illegal) and potential employees should know about it.

[realusername]

I'm doing it for my future career, not for them that's for sure!

Despite not helping in this current company, conducting a lot of interviews taught me a lot for sure.

[varispeed]

Fair point.