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blog - rating a company on its interview process
posted by witten on March 05, 2008
Recently I had a discussion with a longtime Coderific user who brought up the question of where ratings of a company's interview process belong on this site. Someone who has merely interviewed at a company doesn't have the inside knowledge and experience that an employee would have, so giving their ratings equal weight with ratings by actual employees seems somewhat unfair.But there definitely is some value to seeing how a company treats its potential employees. Is the handoff from one interviewer to another well-orchestrated? Do the interviewers even know what position they're interviewing the candidate for? Are the interview questions a decent way of judging whether the candidate is a match for the job? Or do the questions more closely resemble "On page 219 of Design Patterns, what is the sixth word of the fourth paragraph?"So where do interview ratings belong on Coderific? After some consideration, I've come to the conclusion that they belong in the discussion forum for each company. Every employer on Coderific has its own forum, which seems like a perfect place for posting about an interview process, even if you were never a full-blown employee. This has the benefit of still allowing those who interview at a company to provide valuable feedback on it, without encroaching on the ratings of people who have actually worked there.I should point out that this is already happening. Just today, someone posted a couple of interview commentaries in the respective discussion forums for the companies in question. The only change I would make to promote this approach is to make it more explicit on Coderific that interview ratings are welcome, as long as they're posted in the forums. Right now, interview ratings are barely mentioned.If you've got any feedback on the topic, make your comments below. I'm interested to find out what people think.