Three interviews for one role - is this unusual?

[edison]

I'm a newbie contractor and start my first gig next week. I had three separate interviews over two weeks (one face to face) totalling almost three hours with the client. Is this unusual? I was a bit surprised to need more than one interview based on experience from other contractors I know. I'm at upper-middle/senior manager level.

Interested to hear if anyone has had a similar experience...

[eek]

I'm a newbie contractor and start my first gig next week. I had three separate interviews over two weeks (one face to face) totalling almost three hours with the client. Is this unusual? I was a bit surprised to need more than one interview based on experience from other contractors I know. I'm at upper-middle/senior manager level.

Interested to hear if anyone has had a similar experience...

Every place is different. Every interview process is different. My advice live with it.

[MPwannadecentincome]

not unusual - I saw 5 people over 3 face to face interviews in 2 weeks before I got the gig.

you got your gig so right result - good luck!

[Darksider]

I had 3 interviews of my last gig. All with separate people though - IT Techies, IT Boss and then head of HR. A bit uncommon maybe, but not unusual.

[BrilloPad]

In finance its becoming the norm now. And most industries are becoming more red tape now.

And at the management level there is generally a longer decision making decision process.

Back in the late 80s it was only 1 interview for 30 minutes tops.

2 years ago I had 13 interviews for one role - some at 11pm at night! I failed at the final one which was annoying.

Last year I I had 7 interviews for a single role.

[edison]

In finance its becoming the norm now. And most industries are becoming more red tape now.

And at the management level there is generally a longer decision making decision process.

Back in the late 80s it was only 1 interview for 30 minutes tops.

2 years ago I had 13 interviews for one role - some at 11pm at night! I failed at the final one which was annoying.

Last year I I had 7 interviews for a single role.

13 interviews?? That's unbelievable! What type of role/company was that for?

The most I would go through with is 4 which I have done before for a perm role.

[BrilloPad]

13 interviews?? That's unbelievable! What type of role/company was that for?

The most I would go through with is 4 which I have done before for a perm role.

13 was PIMCO. Most IT based in West coast of states but role based in London. So alot of interviews with people in New York and California. And LOndon users. And technical tests.

I passed all with flying colours(colors?). Then one interview with board member(not Bill Gross). He kept asking questions about my degree and early days in finance! Then failed me for not being forward thinking technologist! Agent reckons real reason was being a contractor - they don't understand that on the West Coast apparently.

[MarillionFan]

I'm a newbie contractor and start my first gig next week. I had three separate interviews over two weeks (one face to face) totalling almost three hours with the client. Is this unusual? I was a bit surprised to need more than one interview based on experience from other contractors I know. I'm at upper-middle/senior manager level.

Interested to hear if anyone has had a similar experience...

Depends on the company. We put our candidates through

(1) Initial screening. 10 minute chat with recruiter
(2) Pre-business chat. 30 minutes with senior manager or sponsor
(3) Then if pass, bring them in for 4-6 30 minute meetings with the people you'll be working with.

We normally only move to 3 when we're 80% certain we're going to hire though.

[malvolio]

Hmmm...

My last four gigs - a total of 2 face-to-face meetings and two phone calls, and probably less than an hour's discussion for the lot. So clearly I operate at the opposite end of the bell curve!

[VectraMan]

I had a phone interview + 2 face to face interviews for a previous permie job, so about 6 hours in total, and TBH I was seriously losing patience and considering telling them to sod off - I'd have never got through 13. The third one was because they'd decided to offer me a different job so had to meet some different people, which I guess is fair, but they made me wait another 2 weeks for the guy to come back off holiday. And after all that, they then asked for references.

The contracts I had were all face to face only, and for not much more than an hour.