> Whenever we want a great candidate, we go from resumes to hired in less than a month.
A month is considered fast?!
I guess as long as the great candidate you're hiring is not looking at other options.
A recently saw a recruiter lamenting that their clients needed to be told that if they don't make a hiring decision within 2-3 days of introduction, they tend to miss out on the best engineers, who get offers from elsewhere within the week and take them.
It's not? Because I see people here complaining about open positions that stay open for months to years, or that they can't find candidates at all. The breakdown is roughly 1 week for phone screens, 1 week for main interviews, 1 week for the follow-up coding test / code review with a candidate, then the offer. So 3-4 weeks from start to finish. I simply don't see how it could possibly go any faster. We are still doing other work in the meantime. We also need to consider multiple candidates. More than a couple of interviews a day is simply too tiring to evaluate candidates fairly. I've never seen a company move any faster than two to three weeks in dozens and dozens of interviews with all types of candidates and all types of companies from startups to FAANG. Anecdotal reports from recruiters notwithstanding, I think it's incredibly fast. If candidates can't wait (we've had one that we liked that took another offer), it's not a big deal at all. There are tons of qualified candidates out there. Each time we've hired the last three times, we've had three equally capable candidates. If one of them drops out, it makes the decision that much easier. After all, at that stage, it's impossible to say one is better than another. That can only be said after working with someone for some time. We've even gone back and hired candidates that initially were our runner up when the first choice didn't work out due to non work-related issues.
If you have a steady stream of equally capable, qualified candidates, it's a buyer's market and you don't need to do anything. Carry on :-)
There are other companies who complain that they can't find qualified candidates though. Some of those have those positions that stay open for months.
Those are the ones the recruiters urge to change practices so they have a chance at getting "the best" engineers, on the rare occasions "the best" interview with them. The seller's market situation, where buyers need to compete.
It sounds like you don't have that problem though.
A month is considered fast?!
I guess as long as the great candidate you're hiring is not looking at other options.
A recently saw a recruiter lamenting that their clients needed to be told that if they don't make a hiring decision within 2-3 days of introduction, they tend to miss out on the best engineers, who get offers from elsewhere within the week and take them.