Once we get through the interview and – if we’re lucky – get the job, our relation to our new company’s interview process changes. Safely employed, do we now become critical of the particular hoops we had to jump through? Or do we find ourselves approving of any process that found us worthy? We asked employees, “How would you rate the interview process at your current company?”
The data comes from the latest reading of an ongoing survey by Comparably. The question was answered by 10,000 employees.
Three-quarters of all respondents are approving of their company’s interview process. Women and men are almost equally matched here, with women only one percentage point more approving of their company’s interview process.
The three-quarters statistic seems to hold true when responses are broken into respective ethnicities. Asian/Pacific Islanders were just higher than the overall average for all workers. Caucasians and Hispanic/Latinos met the numbers for all females, and African-Americans matched the numbers for all male employees.
As is often the case, employees from Executive and HR are notably more positive about company policies than the average employee. One could either argue that part of their job is to be supportive or such policies, or that those departments have a clearer view of interview procedures. Most other departments fell in line with overall employee responses, but the Legal department is notably lower than average responses.
The youngest employees are most approving of their company’s interview process. This implies that either they just got through the process themselves and feel grateful, or that they don’t have any other company interview processes to compare it to. This number drops steadily as age of respondent increases, implying a growing understanding of the complexities of hiring methods.
Generally, the higher the education level, the more positive the employee is about their company’s interview process. There is potentially always going to a positive bias in responses to this question from employees who were ultimately hired, and that may increase with those who feel their degrees speak for them.
Latest reading as of May 13.
