Some companies pay referral bonuses if the person referred by you gets selected and continues working for a minimum period as per policy

Referral bonus is quite common in big orgs, I know about it. Wanted to know about active contribution such as taking interviews or designing assignments

Software Developer

Marketing manager

For managerial roles, it’s a KRA or annual goal to hire resources, train them to strengthen team. There are no perks for interviews. 
  
 Before Covid, I was rostered  in a walk-in interview on a Saturday, only thing I got was a pizza and a compensatory off.

Solution architect

Two parts to it - 
  
 1. Hiring for your own team - don’t think so as it is in your interest to fill that role. 
  
 2. Hiring for the wider org - in case you are a part of the panel for company fit/ wider hiring initiative. Yes 
  
 (*How you are compensated is altogether a different conversation)

Founder

It takes up so much of my time and I feel like there should be some perks to wasting your time on people with more yoe and less knowledge

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

Do you get compensated for taking interviews or contributing to hiring in any way?

Do you get compensated for taking interviews or contributing to hiring in any way?- Grapevine

Welcome to Confessions's Private Community

So basically I don't hesitate in challenging the interviewer if I feel like they don't know how to interview a senior candidate

so during many interviews, this is how I have caught them off guard:

1. The interviewer was asking me technical questions and expecting to explain properly throughout. So at the end i asked him about the tech stack they use, he said Azure. I asked him why they use Azure and not AWS, to which he said "it's cheaper", i didn't let it go, i asked him for a proper technical explanation, his red face was worth seeing.

2. The interview asked me a hard DSA question, and I wasn't able to solve it properly, he didn't even give me enough hints, just expected me to solve it. So halfway I asked him, would you like to solve a DSA if I ask you right now, he said no because it's not his interview. To which I asked, are you afraid that you won't be able to solve? If you are going to reject me for not solving this question, would you resign if you aren't able to solve the question. He ended the call.

3. One interviewer was asking me absurd technical detailed questions. I asked him why are you asking such questions, he said he needs to know my thought process because he will work with me. I started asking him similar questions, he said he won't answer because it's not his interview. I said I also need to know your thought process because we'll work together, so you should also answer these questions, he had no reply.

4. The interviewer asked me about a challenging project that I had done recently. I don't like this question at all. So I said there wasn't any challenging project because I'm good at what I do so it's always easy for me. He moved on to the next question.

5. HR asked me why I resigned without an offer? I asked if it's mandatory? No reply.

Having some fun with the interviewers

Senior software engineer

Welcome to Business Roles's Private Community

P.S. Not GenZ, but relate to vibe as a concept

I've interviewed with multiple companies, and I'm starting to notice a pattern. 

Interviewers who:
- Have their cameras off
- Show up in old t-shirts, looking like they haven't washed their face or combed their hair
- Roll their eyes when the answer isn't what they wanted to hear
- Fidget around when you are speaking
- Look anywhere but at the camera
- Give in to itches all over the body 👀 
among many others 

If we as interviewees are expected to be presentable and excited, the least interviewers could do is put in a little effort to appear decent and engaged.

Is Interviewer vibe a thing?

Consultant

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

A lot of folks working at startups seem to be "passionate " about their job. Some of them possibly, truly are. Some foolishly reverse engineer this passion because they're paid really well and they've been doing a good job and it's good personal PR to say "passion".  A few reality checks.

1. Your cool Bangalore lifestyle is a result of investment risks/bets taken by VC's .

2. Your salary is as much about the market demand as it is about your " passion " and talent.

3. Startups will generally lower the bar for hiring processes to meet their demand for talent. Why need so much talent? Because the startup  needs to spend that 100M$ Series C that just made them a unicorn. That's how they convince the VC to give more money. "We are going to 2x revenue by 2xing our salesforce and buying 10M$ worth of Saas that will increase our productivity by 5x. " And boom ...100M$ transferred into you SVB bank account.

4. You are as replaceable as a garbage bag on your dustbin. The HR is probably flirting with 10 other like you over linkedin.


5. The "values" this startup apparently espouses are mostly nothing but a honey trap and positioning to lure talent.

It's great to have a nice tech job that pays well and allows you to gloat on twitter like a techbro but don't let it fool you into getting an inflated sense of entitlement. You're probably living on borrowed time....and money. :)

" Passionate " Startup folks

Product Manager

In last 30 days or so three times I was in the situation where hiring people said I will send your offer letter by eod, which obviously didn’t happen. In fact the position is kept on hold or priorities are changed.
This is pretty frustrating as well as confusing. I’m not able to understand how these people decide things. 

Every time I was pushed to go through whole hiring process with multiple rounds of interviews as quickly as possible (within 10-15 days approx) and then suddenly nothing.

I’m not sure why these peoples are wasting theirs as well as others time. This just feels stupid.

How should I tackle this situation going forward?

Hiring is broken

Why does everyyyy company wants us to do their assignments, like WTF is my portfolio not enough of a proof of work for you? I worked my ass of on my portfolio. I apply to tons of company at the same time so if every company starts to give their assignment we will focking die with a mental illness

Design assignments are killing me

Product Designer

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

Same as title. These days due to low job security and having faced layoff last year, I always feel the need to continuously do interview prep like DSA, LLD, etc even when I am not actively looking for a job. Plus, due to new technologies coming up, I feel the need to keep upskilling too. If I don't upskill or do interview prep continuously, I feel guilty as if I am wasting time. I feel like at this point, I am just living life to upskill and interview prep. Is there a way to balance all this along with work as it gets very tiring after a while and I feel burnt out?

How do guys balance daily work and upskilling?

Software Engineer

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Are you a techie who enjoys assessing and interviewing emerging talent?

CTC 11LPA
3YOE
Java developer, Fintech industry
Graduated in electronics & communication engineering
Fortune ~250 company product based

I like my work, sort of a workaholic and kind of an over achiever (not trying to show off or be a narcissist).
My boss literally told me to get an offer elsewhere and he will match it, he got me a promotion and a 40% hike.
But I hardly find the motivation to search for jobs.
I'm a good problem solver, but I find the whole interview and selection process in the IT industry very systematic.. they test on concepts which hardly get used at work on the ground level. 
If i grind for a couple of interviews I would certainly get a good offer and get retained at my company, but I don't find the motivation to job hunt and prepare for interviews.
I participate in all my company's innovation initiatives and hackathons. Won a couple of them. 
I love sharing knowledge, and I don't limit myself to any role, I can work as a Product owner, tester, dev, support engineer, and often contribute to a lot of forums within my company.

I'm not that into money. Everyone I say this too tells me to give my money to them if I don't want it. Lol.
So I'm convinced that I'm not being practical..
Is something wrong with me? I agree that I deserve more, but should I do something about it?

I also suppose that I'm in a sort of a comfort zone which is preventing me from preparing for interviews.

Thanks for reading this, I'm open to sincere thoughts as well as jokes.

I'm happy with my pay and work. But my boss, parents and social circle think i deserve more.

Compensation in today’s job market for HR is what was the same for candidates back, which is in 2021(who used to get paid blindly).

Ask 0.5L more now and they will keep you on hold!🙂

The bloated market keeps everyone who is looking to switch underpaid for sure.

Compensation in current market💸

Wanted to learn about the engineering culture, WLB and your experiences there

Any engineers from Atlan here?

I was laid off 3 weeks ago. I've appeared for 9 companies, 7 of which were small scale companies who asked either extremely tough questions or questions on outdated technologies that I don't have experience on(.Net Developer) 
I was able to crack L1 Technical Interviews with the other two companies (MNCs) and they haven't reverted back with the result of the second round yet, saying that they'd reach out by next week. I don't trust HRs so Idk if this is a lie or not. 
The market seems tough and cracking interviews is becoming difficult by the day probably because of the sheer volume of applicants and numerous choices that companies have. 
How many interviews should I expect to give more before I land a job? Moral support dedo.

TLDR: Have appeared for 9 interviews with no success in the past 20 days. How much more time is this going to take? Need some guidance.

How many interviews did it take you to land a job?

Amul says you should interview all the time 

Manas says this is not smart

Today's E-lafda: Manas v/s Amul

Growth Manager

The amount of pride in this post (https://shorturl.at/nopPW) almost baffles me, how is it okay to ask someone to spend their time on a 'pre-interview' assignment? What if the candidate doesn't fit the budget, or the notice period is a bit too much etc. Imagine going through so much only to be laid off because "sorry we hired like crazy and need to do cost-cutting now"

Interview or Harassment @ Meesho

Founder’s office

I hate assignments. I hated them while applying for jobs, and I hate giving them while trying to hire someone.

It's basically free work with no guarantee of employment. It's unfair to make people work so much, often people assign 2-3 days worth of work for such interviews.

Is there any other practical alternative though? I would love to know everyone's thoughts on this

Is there a way to hire people without multiple assignments?

Product Owner

I am a PM intern at a compliance industry startup. Already interned for 3 months and 3 are still left. I will be getting a FTE offer to join from 1st May. 

Should I join it or look out for APM opportunities? 

If I look out for new opportunities, then what sector of Startups should I search for. So that I can at least go through these layoffs without being jobless.

Accept Full-Time Offer Or Look out for new opportunities

Hola folks! Received a call from Probo for one of their openings in Datamuni (I know! that's what the vertical is called). When I researched about the company, their app/web platform on opinion trading (via options) - online reviews of the users are mostly bad with users unable to claim back their winnings & algo seemingly going against the users, etc.

Wanted to know from folks if it's even worth giving my interview time? 

Why I was considering is that it's just a series A and profitable, backed by sequoia, so reward ratio of ESOPs would be high (I understand that even sequoia cannot pick all profitable ventures and some may go bust)

Should I consider interview with Probo (event trading app) ?

Hey guys.

While I know that there is this ridiculous practice of getting candidates who are applying for upper middle to top management roles to do an assignment, has anyone who has done that experienced 'being taken advantage of'.

The reason I am asking is cause I have done a couple of them (putting in decent effort and feeling quite confident) and got no calls in return. What makes it even more shady is that I don't get feedback even after asking for it a couple of times. There was once when I saw the same inputs that I gave being put in practice which infuriated me.

Any inputs?

Assignment for interviews

Project manager

Guys I'm in a huge dilemma. My project has got shelved and I am force fitted into another team in which people have already left. I don't know what to do? 

Will it be ok to look out for a new role or will it look unprofessional since I have just joined the team here. I am just waiting for the appraisal letter and bonus.

Do you get compensated for taking interviews or contributing to hiring in any way?

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