Even that level of demand regrettably isn’t making the time to hire a qualified candidate any shorter. For those who are about to start a search, expect it to take a long time. According to a recent report from Glassdoor Economic Research, the average interview process now takes 23 days, which four years ago was 13 days.
So, what is the reason behind this? According to the research by Glassdoor, the duration is become lengthy due to factors like the size of the company, location, and more severe screening processes factor that adds to the time taken to get an offer. Tech jobs, which are the most in-demand this year, unluckily have longer waits than average. According to Glassdoor, the interview process for a software engineer could take more than a month (35 days). Closing behind is the job for product engineers and app developers that takes 28 days of interviewing. If just reading about the time it takes to be “on” for a potential employer is fatuiging, it’s about to get worse. The researchers of GetVoIP, a cloud communication adviser, did a study of at least 100 reviews on Glassdoor to recognize trends in the overall experience in the hiring process for a software engineer position at 13 popular tech companies. Speaking to Fast Company, Alex Heinz, who does community outreach at GetVoIP, said “We placed the most emphasis on interviews posted in the past two years (2014—2015), though we realize that the interviews could have been conducted at an earlier date and posted about later.” He also pointed out that it might have been interesting to include companies such as HP, Samsung, or Dell might, but they were not. “There wasn’t enough information available for us to feel confident about their hiring processes,” he says. This phoning and testing process draws a lot of negative feedback from the applicants, as these processes takes between two weeks to a month at these companies. Instead, GetVoIP’s analysis showed that drawn-out processes didn’t impact an interviewee’s experience. “While Cisco, Yahoo, and Uber had the shortest interview process of two weeks, only interviewees at Cisco had an overwhelmingly positive interview experience,” writes GetVoIP’s founder Reuben Yonatan. Similarly, easy interview processes don’t always convert to a positive experience, and a more challenging one does not essentially lead to more discontented reviews. As Yonatan notes: Twitter’s interview process was moderate (3.1/5.0), but an overpowering number of interviewees (42%) had a negative experience. Conversely, Google had the hardest process (3.4/5.0), but only 15% of people had a negative experience, and 56% of people had a positive experience.
On the other hand, Twitter with 46% was the company that drew the most negative feedback among applicants. That leaves both Apple and Uber with a tie at 26%.
While the data is specific to software engineers, Yonatan confesses that it is a good indicator of how diverse the hiring process is today in a range of industries. Thanks to video resumes and interviews, location is no longer a deal breaker to qualify for a position, reports Fast Company. Says Yonatan: “Today, there are multiple rounds of phone/Skype screenings and test projects before you even qualify for an onsite interview.” Source: Fast Company
