[nissimk]

It's interesting to note how many people that actually work at a place had to jump through all of the pre job offer hoops. I think you'll usually find a lot of people who were able to avoid much of that stuff because:

1) they were hired before the company started doing it

2) they new someone going in so they got hired without as much rigmarole.

3) they started as a contractor/freelancer and were converted to employee without interviewing

4) they came to the company through an acquisition

It seems like if you're not good at these annoying pre-offer activities that you're better off taking one of the above routes into a new job rather than trying to play these games.

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[001sky]

This is a good point, and sort of supports the Author's thesis. Perhaps better than the submitted Article. The way to test if interviews are 'fit for purpose' is to see how effective they are in real use. If everybody is going around the formal process, by hiring friends/previous project-teamates/warm-referrals only...then that is pretty important observational data.

[JackMorgan]

Oh, dark. Maybe all the people there beat the system. I have to ask around my office now, see if that was the case.