What happens behind the scenes during/after a tech onsite?
Going through the interview process as a new grad right now and was curious what goes on behind the scenes at and after interviews. What sorta things are my interviewers writing down? Do they give a binary hiring recommendation or is it more of a scale? Are they evaluating me on multiple categories? After the interview, does the hiring manager just see some electronically submitted data, or do they all get in a room and discuss me specifically? Does it change betwen large and small companies?
Isn't that supposed to be confidential.
Typically it's a four or five point scale for interviewers' overall recommendations. The five points are strong no, lean no, no decision, lean yes, strong yes; the four point scale removes the "no decision" option. Beyond that it depends on what role you're trying for, but generally people evaluate the content of your response, your thought process, how clearly you can express yourself, and an overall impression of what it's like to be in a small room with you 1:1 for a while. The recruiter and hiring manager aggregate this feedback and either make a decision based on it or have a meeting with everyone who interviewed you where they discuss their impressions. Then they decide.
^ same as above except you can also get hired if you have all 3s (lean yes) - more common - or at least one 4 and everyone else convinces the 2 to verbally agree to a hire.
First thing to keep in mind is that hiring is a big deal for you but a chore interrupting other work to most people on the other side of the table. Don’t take it personally. Yes there is a discussion with the full panel and the recruiter. Thumbs up / down given up front to avoid groupthink. Then go around the room and share feedback. Interviewers who felt they didn’t get a strong signal may be convinced by others to change their votes. Any interviewer can block the hire. A “bar raiser” from another team is on the loop to prevent desperate teams from bringing in mediocre people. I tend to comment on clarity and depth of past projects we discussed, collaboration style, consideration of tradeoffs, reaction to feedback / hints, fluency with chosen language, and progress on problem.
You tell us how it is at Amazon. And then we openup
would if i knew my guy