Re:"Behavioural" questions at an interview (Score 1)

Simon. You seem like a nice guy. What if I suggested candidates are customers and just that important 50/50 relationship, got it? How does two days of 8 hour interviews serve the customer? How come brilliant people, engineers of all people, can't figure out and endorse recruiting as a binary safe function. I mean, for example, why not set up two-person team interviews leaving the candidate 4 hours free the first day. Or. Novel idea. Let them go to lunch while you all pow wow and let them know face to face and with honesty why they are free the rest of their stay. Help them. Can't you do that? Why has it become an acceptable practice to "subject" candidates to so much. Honest to pete, I've taken to ordering soup just so I can swallow. Gah-dang. The kid missed school? I would have thought of that. I would have cared. I would have found a way to make it happen. How caring it might have been for one recruiter to take a stance in what is in the best interest of the candidate. "Simon, I've got this green bean. He's still in school. He's got x and I believe in him. There's something about him. I was wondering if your part of it could be done over the phone." Win/win. 50/50. Respect. I will sit on the sidelines no more because I "can" get up now for all of us and shout, "Stop doing it!" Probably because there's nothing stuck in my teeth from lunch, where I still couldn't relax because it was an interview. Does the candidate know that? I didn't at a high tech company in Seattle and it was unpleasant. I couldn't wait to get away. Simon, are you Sergei in disguise? There's a certain happiness in what you've written thus far.