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A friend went through a two-full-day process with a Big Pharma company a few years ago; they were looking at a large group of people while recruiting for an expansion at the time, though.
From the other side, we recently recruited a new staff member and did the first round of interviews almost entirely by Skype, and only three people were taken through to the final interview stage on-site. That was partly because the long-list were scattered all over the place and we couldn’t afford to fly them all in for interview.
I once went through an extremely unpleasant ‘informal chat’ that lasted three hours, followed by a very difficult formal panel interview, only to be told that I would need to be interviewed again because at the level they’d appoint me they needed a larger panel. I was annoyed but not surprised when a month later they told me they wouldn’t appoint me because I was too senior and expensive for the role they had in mind (which would have been evident from one glance at my CV).
A friend went through a two-full-day process with a Big Pharma company a few years ago; they were looking at a large group of people while recruiting for an expansion at the time, though.
From the other side, we recently recruited a new staff member and did the first round of interviews almost entirely by Skype, and only three people were taken through to the final interview stage on-site. That was partly because the long-list were scattered all over the place and we couldn’t afford to fly them all in for interview.
I once went through an extremely unpleasant ‘informal chat’ that lasted three hours, followed by a very difficult formal panel interview, only to be told that I would need to be interviewed again because at the level they’d appoint me they needed a larger panel. I was annoyed but not surprised when a month later they told me they wouldn’t appoint me because I was too senior and expensive for the role they had in mind (which would have been evident from one glance at my CV).