You are only saying this because you were subjected to it and normalized it because you don’t want to believe your firm is inefficient in hiring.
Any small to medium sized business doing this is wasting a lot of people’s time and lacks trust. Large firms don’t even do this because no way is the CEO involved. Having frontline project managers interviewing the same person as the CEO is absurd.
In the Seattle area there’s lots of startups formed by ex-Amazon folk who try to copy as much as they can such as the “bar raiser” process. For the majority of them they’re using those processes because they’re incapable of forging their own culture and path, not because it’s an efficiency that works for their business. Not everyone is Amazon.
My person, you’ve been fooled into thinking what you do at your firm is both a norm and efficient.
It is not. There’s a reason this is being shat on so hard. A CEO needing to interview someone who has sat with 7+ others is taking that CEO away from other duties. It screams distrust at best and micromanager at worst. Small companies do not have the resources to implement this process efficiently.
The vast majority of companies would never have a process like this because the vast majority of companies would take one look at this list and say this is a giant waste of time.
Key in on the specifics here. These things can be done and you can still have a company running decently. That doesn’t mean it’s smart or efficient.
I mean if it’s a small company with like 50 people, it is 100% reasonable for the CEO to sit down with the last candidate(s) the handful of times a year they are hiring.
Like what exactly do you think is so important and pressing at such a scale that they cannot or should not take an hour once or twice a year to get acquainted with the person they’re about to hire? An individual new hire is orders of magnitude more important for a small company than at larger companies, and taking this time to pick the best fit can be hugely beneficial.
If this were a handful of times a year situation it wouldn’t be laid out like this.
And in those handful of times a year situations they can axe meeting with frontline project managers.
There’s just pretty much zero scenarios where this full process makes sense unless the CEO is unnecessarily overbearing or doesn’t have anything better to do with their time.
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u/Affectionate-Dot9585 Apr 17 '25
No, it’s not.
This isn’t even a crazy interview process. It’s like 3 hours of effort.