ZippyRaccoon
ZippyRaccoon

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

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

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SwirlyMochi
SwirlyMochi
Student12mo

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

ZippyRaccoon
ZippyRaccoon

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

CosmicPretzel
CosmicPretzel

username checks out ✅

ZoomyPickle
ZoomyPickle

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)

ZestyDonut
ZestyDonut
KPMG12mo

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.

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(Copying this from a recent blind post)

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