I can absolutely imagine this being an effective strategy for companies hiring for high-talent jobs.
I have 15 years experience, and there's competition just to interview with a company. In my last job hunt I talked seriously to maybe 10 or 11 places. I did 7 onsites, two work-weeks of interviewing. But picking the ones I wanted to do on-sites with was close to random. All I usually had to go on was a 15-minute call with a recruiter.
I'm quite happy with where I've landed, but in the end I just didn't have time to talk to every company that sounded interesting. Who's hiring is a smorgasbord and lord help you if you do well on Triplebyte's second round and have 30 companies willing to do an on-site. I had to pass on interviewing with several companies that are quite interesting just because I couldn't be interviewing forever.
At some point, you just have to pick a few to dive deeper with, and it's obvious that it's random. If one had been willing to pay me to go through their process, that would have affected my odds of doing an on-site with them quite a bit. And isn't getting people in the door part of the process for recruitment?
I have 15 years experience, and there's competition just to interview with a company. In my last job hunt I talked seriously to maybe 10 or 11 places. I did 7 onsites, two work-weeks of interviewing. But picking the ones I wanted to do on-sites with was close to random. All I usually had to go on was a 15-minute call with a recruiter.
I'm quite happy with where I've landed, but in the end I just didn't have time to talk to every company that sounded interesting. Who's hiring is a smorgasbord and lord help you if you do well on Triplebyte's second round and have 30 companies willing to do an on-site. I had to pass on interviewing with several companies that are quite interesting just because I couldn't be interviewing forever.
At some point, you just have to pick a few to dive deeper with, and it's obvious that it's random. If one had been willing to pay me to go through their process, that would have affected my odds of doing an on-site with them quite a bit. And isn't getting people in the door part of the process for recruitment?