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gaming4good t1_jdvcaqd wrote

Wild 8 interviews usually by the third interview I’m out. Most of the jobs I have gotten have always been 1-2 interviews.

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SovietCanuckistan420 t1_jdvjv2k wrote

In my career I’ve held 2 retail jobs, 2 government jobs, and 1 healthcare job. I have never had more than 1 interview

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melanthius t1_jdxgm1c wrote

For my first job, I had a phone interview, an on-site interview, they kept me on ice for a while but I kept following up. Then they demanded another phone interview with east coast office (in 2010 before zoom), they still weren’t sure and put me on ice again. Then I got a “meet up” interview in person with a practice director who happened to be visiting the city where I lived… I finally got the job after that. If I didn’t get that job I probably wouldn’t have been very successful in my career. Not even sure what I’d be doing. It was also during 2010 and there were almost no openings anywhere so I felt extremely lucky.

So that was 4 interviews technically and I really cannot imagine having to go through 8.

That said what happened to interviews 6 and 7 on this chart?

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CavemanAmadeus t1_jdxq8a2 wrote

It’s unnecessary visual information, because only one went on further than 5 and it resulted in an offer at the 8th interview, so we have the relevant info in the context.

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DevinCauley-Towns t1_jdxx0k0 wrote

Sometimes it depends on what you consider an “interview”. There may be multiple stages of an application process where you are being evaluated, but you may not actually be sitting in a room or on the phone talking to someone directly. For example, my last internship while in university that ultimately led to my first “real job” looked like this:

  1. Phone interview with recruiter
  2. Online multiple-choice personality assessment
  3. Recorded responses to on-the-fly questions
  4. In-person competency test (Excel & SQL)
  5. In-person case study
  6. Presentation of test & case study answers
  7. General interview with a panel of managers, HR, and a director

4-7 were all on the same day, but involved different focuses.

In the traditional sense, I only had 2 interviews where I was on the phone or sitting across from HR/managers answering questions about myself. Though this obviously involved many more steps than those 2 interviews. By another count there could be as many as 7 total steps or “interviews” taking place. Though they wouldn’t necessarily be able to drop me at any point, especially part way through steps 4-7 where they already walked me through what the day would look like.

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