Yea...no...you're not taking a 4 round interview for one little task. That job is going to have bullshit corporate politics attached to it. If you can't make it through that interview you're not going to make it through the bullshit corporate politics.

If it's really a simple task, it'll be two rounds, and pay like ass.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I've been consistently top performing in all my positions with glowing reviews from all my managers. I can play with the corporate game very well. And yet almost all my jobs were found through networking and the few interview cycles I've attempted were always failures, often surprising the people who vouched for me on how bad I was at interviewing. I'm talking failed interviews which I ended up getting in demoted through another neurospicy person fighting for the me against management, only for me to outperform everyone else by 50%.

These are not the same skills.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yea but I think part of the point is the corporate politics are not required to do the job, they are required to work at that company.

Also what the op finds simple may not be to average people, but if they have specialized skills and training, it becomes a 'simple' task.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I don't see the distinction. For example, I code...but to get my code out I have to deal with like 4 other teams and their ridiculousness...

If I were at a smaller shop, I'd have to be better at dealing with my coworkers and maybe the customers.

As dumb as some of the interview process is, it does indeed weed out people who won't be good in that environment.

(With that said, I've been in completely adversarial interviews that had nothing to do with the work in question and was just an opportunity for the principle to shit on his lessers).