Maybe sometimes they just hire you on the spot and cancel the other interviews. I had it happen once and was very surprised… it was a odd skillset to have and I had a lot of experience, so maybe that was part of the reason?

by Anonymous 1 year ago

There's a mathematical theory about this called the "secretary problem." In it, you want to hire a secretary and get the best applicant with the least amount of interviews. From this problem, you can derive the optimal policy, which is a formula determining how likely you are to get the best applicant. It's really interesting. A company ideally wants to get the best applicant in a probability of 1/e. How many to best interview to get this probility is determined by how many applicants they have for the job.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I looked into this, very very interesting. That's pretty spot on

by Anonymous 1 year ago

If they have to refine their questions based on recent interviewee answers they may not be the kind of place you want to work for.

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I think it's just the human psyche, doing something over and over again will get you more comfortable and better at it..

by Anonymous 1 year ago

I did sales training and they taught a tactic of "last look", meaning: always try to be the last person the potential buyer talks to. If you find out you're the first and they're talking to other companies after you, you should ask to reschedule or ask to schedule a followup after their last meeting. I'm not sure how much data they had behind it, but the thinking was that the last person in has the most advantage in sales.

by Anonymous 1 year ago