I miss the all expense paid flights, hotel, meals for onsites. Preface this by saying I'm a college senior who lives outside SEA/SF/NYC. During my junior year, had about 6 in-person onsites. Palantir, Dropbox, Microsoft, Robinhood, Two Sigma, Citadel to name a few. It was pretty dope travelling on company expense. Some companies like Micorsoft even gave candidates tourism budgets lol. Some of u might think I'm ridiculous but I grew up in a low income family so felt pretty exciting hanging out at airports and checking out new places, restuarants. I estimate companies drop an average of $1k to get an out-of-state candidate onsite. For one onsite I had during holiday season, the company spent over $2.5k on flight, hotel, ubers, food. I feel that companies are going to catch on that these trips are totally unnecessary to assessing candidates and attracting talent especially after the pandemic when this has become the norm. What do yall think? Regardless, still going to miss these trips :(
I love the virtual onsites. Being able to just power through several onsites and not have to travel has been great. I'm in the middle of nowhere with a family so it's a bit different for me I guess.
This. Might be nice for a college grad. Not so much when you have a job and/or family.
Virtual was big for out of state candidates prior to covid for the companies I worked for and interviewed with. They assessed the cost of hosting a candidate vs video call and opted not to host them
They drop more than 2k on flight/hotel etc. (big companies) But that’s small change. They have a LOT more to loose by hiring a wrong candidate. So they will still want to bring u onsite. Small startups might choose to stick with virtual though.
Roku said it best. A bad hire is practically the most expensive mistake a company can make, so they’ll go at lengths to really vet you out and mitigate that; 1k is a small price to pay to have peace of mind about your hire.