Iād be surprised if Open Philanthropy routinely lost good candidates to the length of their hiring process; if this happened, I donāt think it came up in their analysis of their biggest (?) hiring round.
(I do think orgs should be thinking carefully about all the stages of their interview processes and looking for good tradeoffs between time and information on candidates. Open Phil certainly does this already, but Iām not sure about other orgs.)
Empirically, the single hiring process Iāve run for an EA org didnāt lose anyone; every candidate I asked to schedule an interview did so, and every candidate who got through to the second-round work test completed it.
I think I may have wasted candidatesā time in the first round by assigning an editing task that was too long, but the length of that initial test was in line with other industriesā initial requirements, and I hope that I āgave backā some EA time by not requiring a formal cover letter, accepting LinkedIn in lieu of resumes, etc.
Iām not sure how public the hiring methodology is, but if itās fully public then Iād expect the candidates to be ālostā before the point of sending in a CV.
If itās less public that would be less likely, though perhaps the best candidates (assuming they consider applying for jobs at all, and arenāt always just headhunted) would only apply to jobs that had a transparent methodology that revealed a short hiring process.
Iād be surprised if Open Philanthropy routinely lost good candidates to the length of their hiring process; if this happened, I donāt think it came up in their analysis of their biggest (?) hiring round.
(I do think orgs should be thinking carefully about all the stages of their interview processes and looking for good tradeoffs between time and information on candidates. Open Phil certainly does this already, but Iām not sure about other orgs.)
Empirically, the single hiring process Iāve run for an EA org didnāt lose anyone; every candidate I asked to schedule an interview did so, and every candidate who got through to the second-round work test completed it.
I think I may have wasted candidatesā time in the first round by assigning an editing task that was too long, but the length of that initial test was in line with other industriesā initial requirements, and I hope that I āgave backā some EA time by not requiring a formal cover letter, accepting LinkedIn in lieu of resumes, etc.
Iām not sure how public the hiring methodology is, but if itās fully public then Iād expect the candidates to be ālostā before the point of sending in a CV.
If itās less public that would be less likely, though perhaps the best candidates (assuming they consider applying for jobs at all, and arenāt always just headhunted) would only apply to jobs that had a transparent methodology that revealed a short hiring process.