Do any companies truly want to hire?

6 points by aen1 2 years ago | 2 comments

I currently work for a successful but dysfunctional pre-IPO startup.

I've been searching for jobs now for almost 4 months. In that time, I've had numerous interviews and calls from small startups through big companies.

I just got my 3rd rejection after going through a full process. The process included 7(!) interviews for a Staff/Senior level position over a month and a half.

During the first recruiter calls, everyone always seems super eager to hire, but then they wait 2 weeks before scheduling the next ~4 technical interviews, and seem positive despite eventually sending rejection emails, with of course no feedback.

I'm at a loss here. I'm trying to move jobs to support my family, since the current job is very unstable (layoffs, poor management, constant reorgs). Despite trying my hardest, it doesn't seem like any company actually wants to hire.

*Are there any companies left that actually do a full process in 2 weeks? with a reasonable number of interviews? and would actually hire if a candidate met the bar?*

Maybe I'm doing something wrong. Any ideas?

(If it helps, I do Full Stack Node/TS/React/Vue and Python/Django stuff mostly and have 10 years of experience)

mech422 2 years ago |

Don't know about the interview processes - but if you've been looking 4 months, you started back in Q4, which is normally a REALLY slow time (everyone is busy with holidays, parties, vacations, and budgets are basically spent). Hopefully, it should start picking up now...

edit: Q4 not Q3

aen1 2 years ago | |

Thanks. I appreciate the encouragement. It was definitely pretty slow at the end of the year.

It isn't about getting responses though. That is generally fine, from what I can tell.

It is more that I feel like every company wants to talk, and they want to test you, but really are not interested in hiring even if you seem like a good candidate.

E.g. they want to wait for other candidates, are slow in scheduling, have tons of required interviews where they ask similar things