> All day interviews. Many firms expect an interview for a developer to take an entire day, typically with between 5 and 8 separate interviews. This makes it hard for developers who already have jobs to attend.
This bothers me immensely. If you are job hunting, you want to apply to several jobs to get a number of offers and get an overall better deal. How do people manage this when they got a full time job? Do they literally take an entire week vacation to have 5 all day onsites?
If you're applying for your first job, you might treat job hunting like a fussy suitor problem and want to get five offers to get a good picture of your market value. You get a job where you're pretty happy with the salary, the benefits, and the work.
When you apply for subsequent jobs, you no longer need to take a large sample to calibrate your judgement; you only need to compare the job to your current one. And questions like salary and the nature of the work can be answered during the phone screen.
If changing jobs takes three days of annual leave and boosts my salary by $10,000 that seems like a pretty good trade to me.
> Do they literally take an entire week vacation to have 5 all day onsites?
That wouldn't be actually that bad as onsite is an advanced stage in the recruitment process. In the current state of the job market it's more entire week vacation to complete take home assignments and online tests.
This bothers me immensely. If you are job hunting, you want to apply to several jobs to get a number of offers and get an overall better deal. How do people manage this when they got a full time job? Do they literally take an entire week vacation to have 5 all day onsites?