Well, having been on both sides I think they have their place, but the group shouldn't be huge. I once was interviewed by a dozen people at the same time. It was very difficult to keep things straight. 4 of them were in another state over a video conference link. It was very hard on me and I decided not to take the job, more for compensation reasons but the interview process seemed overly intensive.
I like having a group of 2 or 3 people together from the same team. Follow up interviews could be with the full team if possible or different people on the team. The interviewee is already at a disadvantage and having more people there makes it more so. It has benefits for the interviewers of course, but I tend to think that controls the interviewing process too much. On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Bill Wohler <[email protected]> wrote: > Speaking of interviewing, what do people think about group interviews? > I love them! > > - As an interviewer. You get to see how the candidate fits into the > group. You get to see responses to questions you wouldn't have asked > on your own. You get to follow up on questions asked by others. You > therefore get more breadth and depth than had you interviewed one on > one. > > - As an interviewee. The interview is only an hour or two instead of > all day, so you can get two interviews in in one day. You don't have > to repeat yourself over and over. You probably get to meet more > people, learn their group dynamic, and see how they work together as a > team. > > What do you think? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- Robert Casto www.robertcasto.com www.sellerstoolbox.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
