[hack_edu]

To start, thanks for the self-submitted promo piece on your company. If you want publicity, earn it. You ought to make a statement about this fact in the comment section. Or, submit this using an official account.

Here is basically how it goes:

- Phone screening

- Take home assignment

- "Resume” interview

- Technical interview

- Product interview

- Interview with another team

- Finalizing the hire

This might seem that there are a lot of steps… and maybe it’s true. However we feel that it’s good for both parties if they get a good look at what working together would be like.

Are you kidding me? That is more time spent interviewing with you than the legal French work week. Who has time for that? I don't know about Paris, most candidates would laugh in the face of your recruiter. Those that don't are push-overs with nothing better to do.

Put yourself in someone else's shoes and imagine going through 7 days of 1-4hr interviews, concurrently, with a half dozen other companies at the same time. What makes your company so elite? Prove it.

Some some respect.

[marcgg]

If you sum it all up, it is less than a day. The phone screening is ~20 minutes, the assignment takes a couple of hours and so on.

I think it's fair to expect that a candidate is willing to invest at least 5-6 hours in an interview process. Compared to what I've seen before (full day interviews, freelance period etc) this seems fair to me. But like you comment proves, it might not be for everybody.

[Bahamut]

A take home assignment alone is likely more than a work day, if not multiples - I'll take a 7 hour onsite interview gauntlet over that any day.

The only side this process seems to be favorable for is the company interviewing.

To give a flip side, I just finished interviewing with over 10 companies in a rigorous search. Of those, two did take home tests, and ultimately I didn't have the time to complete either, especially since the requirements were written in a way where candidates were encouraged to dump a lot of time into them. My schedule was filled with many high stakes interviews, which was mentally exhausting. It simply is not in my interest to do a take home project, as it reduces the number of companies I can simultaneously interview at.

[hack_edu]

If this is the case, you are merely writing a piece of "our interview process is entirely average." I don't know about you, but 5-6 hours is standard. What's the point of breaking out your day-of process into 4 bullet points if its just the same as your normal engineering interview? Fluff.

Finally, realize that your candidates (just like your Eng org) spend much more time prepping for your interview than you quantify on paper. However much they choose to is up to them, but don't pretend you're doing them a favor.