I wonder how much would change if people were required to be paid market rate for their time if the interview process went past a certain point. How many broken things in tech are caused by the fact that costs of hiring and of bad hires are so heavily externalized and put on candidates. If companies were forced to realize a larger portion of the cost for their process would we see things change for the better?
@cercerilla Maybe, but there's plenty of other stuff wrong with hiring that forcing companies to pay candidates to show up for interviews might not fix.
Like discrimination based on "cultural fit" that miraculously seems to exclude everybody who isn't a young white man.
@starbreaker oh definitely, I’m not saying it’s a panacea, or honestly even an idea that will fix anything, I’m just wondering about the effects it would have. I suspect it might make companies even less willing to interview underrepresented people since they’d be less likely to spend cash interviewing folks they don’t value.
