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I noticed that there's a huge negative effect from COVID times too: interviews are all done over Zoom.

That doesn't sound like a huge deal, but when you have an active day job that is potentially not close to your house and doing RTO, it can be very hard to find a good place to take these interviews. Especially now that 5 interviews is considered normal, and since they're "online" people seem to expect that they can schedule them "whenever."

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… and you’re comparing to what alternative? To take even more time out of the day to meet these people face to face? Zoom is more convenient by a mile.

I think the unstated part of the parent comment is that the zoom meetings aren't being scheduled in one block of time like in person meetings would be, but spread out over multiple days.

For some people, it's easier to take 1 day off work to go do a series of interviews than to fit 5 different one-hour interviews at different times over the course of a week.

If the company scheduled the zoom calls all in one block, then ya, zoom would still be more convenient than in person.

I started getting unsolicited invites to already-scheduled virtual interviews this Spring. Initially, it made me feel guilty to ignore them and not give a heads up I won’t attend. Now I just ignore them, which is highly recommended over engaging with pushy people.

Otherwise, people seem to like virtual interviews, esp whiteboards. Less stress.

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