<story><title>Why Google Employees Quit (2009)</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/why-google-employees-quit/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>methyl</author><text>What I&amp;#x27;m wondering about is that they mention long hiring process as a reason for quitting the job. They finally made it to the end and they quit because of that?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>potatolicious</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m in that boat right now so maybe I can shed some light.&lt;p&gt;Bad hiring practices represents a lot of organizational dysfunction, some of which impact your every day work, and since the hiring process is your first contact with the company it&amp;#x27;s often the first thing to come to mind.&lt;p&gt;Bad hiring practices also cause you to be interviewing candidates. A lot. &amp;quot;Google-style&amp;quot; tech hiring is characterized by generally meaningless interviews with very, very low acceptance rates. This is not just frustrating for candidates who fail, but also the people who get to interview them.&lt;p&gt;When I was at Amazon I was in this situation - a combination of poor hiring practices and organizational dysfunction meant that all of a sudden I was literally spending 5+ hours every single day interviewing people. It was brutal and demoralizing - doubly so when a candidate everyone liked is rejected for seemingly arbitrary&amp;#x2F;bureaucratic reasons. The sheer gauntlet of back-to-back interviews candidates are subject to also means that for every one candidate, &lt;i&gt;many&lt;/i&gt; engineer-hours are spent interviewing them. The impact of diverting this much time towards interviewing candidates instead of actual work is easily felt.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why Google Employees Quit (2009)</title><url>http://techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/why-google-employees-quit/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>methyl</author><text>What I&amp;#x27;m wondering about is that they mention long hiring process as a reason for quitting the job. They finally made it to the end and they quit because of that?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>learnstats2</author><text>It shows disrespect for the employee&amp;#x27;s time.&lt;p&gt;That might not cause you to quit immediately, but it might be an indicator for other problems and you might become more acutely aware of those when you start.&lt;p&gt;Also, now you have &amp;quot;I passed the Google hiring process&amp;quot; on your CV.</text></comment>