We are a small information security consulting boutique. We are interviewing and hiring more than one person. For a small team making good hires is a big deal (most teams are small, even if the organization is large).
I don't know how else to do it, especially when it is really rare for someone to have the skills we need out of the gate. That means testing (we have a testing process) and time talking with candidates. On the other side, streamlining things, we have made hiring missteps in the past, which had measurable and high cost to the business. For us at least, it isn't hot air. Hiring is a hard problem. We spent a lot of time trying to optimize it to find an ideal way that costs less time.
Consider this: every hour a consultant is interviewing they arent doing research or billable work. So we believe strongly enough in how we do things to put our money where our practices are. Maybe the economics for the Googles of the world are different, but for us it is a real decision to be made.
I don't know how else to do it, especially when it is really rare for someone to have the skills we need out of the gate. That means testing (we have a testing process) and time talking with candidates. On the other side, streamlining things, we have made hiring missteps in the past, which had measurable and high cost to the business. For us at least, it isn't hot air. Hiring is a hard problem. We spent a lot of time trying to optimize it to find an ideal way that costs less time.
Consider this: every hour a consultant is interviewing they arent doing research or billable work. So we believe strongly enough in how we do things to put our money where our practices are. Maybe the economics for the Googles of the world are different, but for us it is a real decision to be made.