if a person can't blow your socks off with 5 minutes then you can probably predict how the rest of the interview will go.
Is this really true? I think if you turn it around you wouldn't agree with it so readily: if a person can blow your socks off in 5min, then you can predict how the rest of the interview will go." Well then why have the rest of the interview, or if the rest of the interview is still necessary, why go through the 5min pitch rigamarole? Why not just shave those 5min off the whole interview? Why not send the candidate on their way after they don't do their pitch-intro well? These are all rhetorical questions, but you see how I'm following the logic in your statement. I'm not judging either way, but hey, could it work any worse than the processes elsewhere described?
Heck, I wonder how a company would do if they gave the candidate 5min for whatever with the significant coworkers of the position, then take a vote from the interviewers and just hire based on the victors. Interviewers can do culture or technical interactions, doesn't matter, if they feel good about the person then they vote to hire. I guess it's like Speed Dating this way, but still.
Is this really true? I think if you turn it around you wouldn't agree with it so readily: if a person can blow your socks off in 5min, then you can predict how the rest of the interview will go." Well then why have the rest of the interview, or if the rest of the interview is still necessary, why go through the 5min pitch rigamarole? Why not just shave those 5min off the whole interview? Why not send the candidate on their way after they don't do their pitch-intro well? These are all rhetorical questions, but you see how I'm following the logic in your statement. I'm not judging either way, but hey, could it work any worse than the processes elsewhere described?
Heck, I wonder how a company would do if they gave the candidate 5min for whatever with the significant coworkers of the position, then take a vote from the interviewers and just hire based on the victors. Interviewers can do culture or technical interactions, doesn't matter, if they feel good about the person then they vote to hire. I guess it's like Speed Dating this way, but still.