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The tech hiring process

The tech hiring process

This video will help demystify the hiring process for engineering candidates. For many candidates, a lack of understanding of the hiring process affects their ability to make the best possible case for themselves. And let's be honest, there is a perceived and often real power imbalance when it comes to the hiring process. The company has a job openings while the candidate needs the job. So it stands to reason that the company may have a real upper hand in this conversation. This imbalance often forces candidates to act in a manner that makes them look impatient at best and desperate at worst. But what if I told you that the real disadvantage for candidates here is not just power, but a lack of visibility? The hiring process at many companies is opaque or disorganized or both, even to stakeholders within the company. That, plus the chaotic and changing priorities within companies make candidates feel like they don't really see a return on the investment they have to put in by way of…

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