[cloche]

I don't understand why tech companies are so reluctant to go back to in-person interviews. This used to be the norm before COVID and it would solve most of these issues. It's also ironic that the authors are from Microsoft/Amazon and Meta which have very structured interviews that tend to be about just hitting the right keywords during the interview itself. None of these places even really care about what you've done previously, for better or worse.

[beej71]

One thing is that it costs money to fly people out and that's a big investment when the person might arrive and not know jack.

[fragmede]

$2,000 to fly a candidate out and put them up for a day and stuff is a tiny investment for a company the size of Google.

[beej71]

I guess it's a question of how many times you want to do that.

[lazyant]

you still need filter phone/remote interviews to select which candidates to have for on-site interviews, and this article centers on this initial interview being broken

[bartread]

> I don't understand why tech companies are so reluctant to go back to in-person interviews.

Tech companies probably aren’t that reluctant, but I’d bet a lot of job applicants are.

[ghaff]

I do understand there are job applicants who don't want to travel and/or don't want to do an in-person interview. But <shrug>. I also do think that (mostly) post-COVID I mostly want to meet with a candidate in person.

[bartread]

I think the point is that people have different preferences: those didn’t matter before COVID but they do matter now.

There are at least a couple of trade offs here.

1. Companies compete for applicants, and applicants - even good applicants - will often prefer companies with less arduous hiring processes except where they specifically want to work at that company.

2. Filtering out applicants who don’t want, or for whom it will be impractical, to attend in person interviews will meaning losing out on good applicants, but also reduces the applicant pool (e.g., to a geographic region).

I could see a world where we’re slowly forced in this direction though simply because I can see that even the kind of dynamic reasoning interview recommended in TFA will become gameable by AI before too much more time passes.

[lokar]

There were phone screens before Covid