Your point is interesting but I don’t see how it answers the question.
“The majority of interviews being statistically rejections “is not obviously related to a need to make the interview process more demanding than the actual job - Testing for the role would also weed out bad candidates.
Here’s some alternatives:
- engineers testing for the idealized version of their job, rather than the realities of it - “a true engineer must know how to balance a binary tree! Nevermind that I spend my time dealing with support tickets regarding a null pointer that slipped by in a code review”.
- companies using long processes as negotiation tactics - “you went through two months of trials so you’re less likely to reject our offer now and start over”
- design by committee - “every interested party and team must give an approval in their own step”
- interview as marketing - “see? We deal with tough challenges, this is an interesting place to work at”.
“The majority of interviews being statistically rejections “is not obviously related to a need to make the interview process more demanding than the actual job - Testing for the role would also weed out bad candidates.
Here’s some alternatives:
- engineers testing for the idealized version of their job, rather than the realities of it - “a true engineer must know how to balance a binary tree! Nevermind that I spend my time dealing with support tickets regarding a null pointer that slipped by in a code review”.
- companies using long processes as negotiation tactics - “you went through two months of trials so you’re less likely to reject our offer now and start over”
- design by committee - “every interested party and team must give an approval in their own step”
- interview as marketing - “see? We deal with tough challenges, this is an interesting place to work at”.