I don't agree with recorded video, but I am now convinced that there should always be an random "observer" (interviewer does not get to pick) who does nothing but watch and take notes along with an interviewer.
You can give whatever excuse you want "Adding a new person to the loops," "normalizing the loop level," whatever. But I am now convinced that interviewers cannot be trusted alone with candidates anymore.
Maybe I'm naiive that they ever could be, but if one of my guys did half of the stuff people keep reporting to a candidate and I found out about it, I'd have his head and maybe his badge.
Fsck you very much whichever FAANG HR department decided that "interview loop" was something to be added to corporate evaluations for points and then promulgated it to other companies. Thus making both sides of interviewing even shittier than it was before.
Isn't interviewing in pairs fairly common? When being interviewed, there's always been two people across from me for the technical rounds; anything 1-on-1 is limited to initial phone screens and final rounds with the bigwigs. When conducting interviews, I've always been one of two, with the exception of one time when no one else was available to join me, which I'd prefer not to repeat.
I would go so far as to say a random passive observer is still a great idea in addition to two active interviewers.
It wasn't at any point that I knew. Interviewing is an expensive operation--it ties up quite senior folks for a fixed amount of time. If you pair that, you double the expense.
And it seems like phone screens are exactly the point where you most need a pair from these anecdotes.
You can give whatever excuse you want "Adding a new person to the loops," "normalizing the loop level," whatever. But I am now convinced that interviewers cannot be trusted alone with candidates anymore.
Maybe I'm naiive that they ever could be, but if one of my guys did half of the stuff people keep reporting to a candidate and I found out about it, I'd have his head and maybe his badge.
Fsck you very much whichever FAANG HR department decided that "interview loop" was something to be added to corporate evaluations for points and then promulgated it to other companies. Thus making both sides of interviewing even shittier than it was before.