Just got off a call with a recruiter for an ok company. Their process involves multiple interviews and a take home assignment.
I plan to just tell them if they want to recruit me, I would like to talk to the CEO first and see if it is worthwhile.
It used to be the CEO would seek out top talent. Increasingly I feel like CEOs are leaving hiring to the lower ranks who basically do a random job and hire people who don’t scare them.
It is a recipe to 100% ensure you get the worst talent.
Is this normal? My understanding from all the literature is recruiting is CEO’s #1 priority.
My experience is most teams throw out a random dragnet and hope someone good wanders in, and then gets past the low level intermediaries who are 100% chance to not be able to discern who the best talent is.
I am no longer interested in these interview loops. I am pretty sure I’m in the top of the talent pool.
Is there a polite way to say: “I am transformational to your company; I’d like to see that you understand what I can do.”
Startups hiring like FAANG is a red flag - It means they are adopting an approach to hire the middle tier.
If you feel that interview process is not going as you expect it to go, you may just say:
" I understand that you have an established interview process that works for you, but it is not exactly as I imagined it.
Extensive interview process is a big time and energy investment. Before going this path I would like talk to the CEO to see if there is a match between what I could bring to the company and what company is looking for.
If it is not possible to have such a conversation, this is fine with me, I definitely do not want to push or convince you to do something you are not comfortable with.
But going throght the whole inteview process and realizing that there is no match only at the end is not really my flow. "
The drawback of this approach is that if they will reject your proposal for the meeting you will need to walk your walk.