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lorentz
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How is randomly calling people without any prior discussion still the primary way to conduct phone interviews? It's like selecting olympic runners by doing a prior survey of people who sometimes go jogging, at random hours of the day telling them to get to your office as fast as possible and taking their distance over time as their score on the national leaderboard.

Especially when I'm already in contact with the recruiter over e-mail or IM, it would take no effort whatsoever to send a message like "could we have a call in an hour?" It would feel haphazard and somewhat disrespectful to receive an e-mail like that, right? Well, this would be a million times better than an unprompted call.

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  • 1
    Most interviews I have had were in person or scheduled for phone/computer. I had one place just call me, but they were not worth the effort.
  • 1
    How about passing all technical interviews only for the lead hr to tell you, you are too young...
  • 0
    @h3xd some places that is illegal.
  • 0
    One wild guess is that they've tried being polite but numbers dropped massively. random calls might just be 10x more effective

    I never answer recruiter emails but I answer some calls from unknown numbers.
  • 0
    I set up a jira ticketing system just so people would stop calling me and my co-workers about issues. They still call us, we gave up telling them to raise a ticket after the first month, it's pointless with these dinosaurs
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