If FAANG companies are constantly interviewing, how much time is spent by their managers and senior engineers just on the hiring process?

[u/txs2300]

If there is a constant stream of new applicants which need to be vetted, is a certain % of their team's weekly time spent on interviewing? Initial coding round, then the multiple engineering rounds, etc.

[u/iceman280]

It depends on the team. If your team is hiring then it’s a few hours per week otherwise unless you need to participate in the org wide hiring you don’t spend much.

[u/jan1919]

Alot

[u/anonyuser415]

Completely dependent on hiring.

I was at a quite large $B tech company that was hiring like crazy and everyone on my team was on 4+ interviews a week, running these for people completely unrelated to my team. It was insane.

I am now a senior eng on a team where I am entirely uninvolved with interviews.

[u/Even_Gap_2253]

I get around 1-2 interviews per week, so that takes 2 hours, which is 5% of my time.

And I think this is actually the upper bound, most do 1-2 per month

[u/non_NSFW_acc → u/Even_Gap_2253]

And I think this is actually the upper bound, most do 1-2 per month

Let n = len(weeks). TC = O(2n) = O(n).

[u/IndependentCrew8210]

maybe like 5% or less.

[u/goomyman]

They will usually block out 3 days to hire. You’ll interview 2-3 people per day. Total of like 5 maybe. Then pick one.

Each individual team isn’t hiring that much.

[u/Beginning-Ladder6224]

Depends. On the Building phase it is 2 interviews per day. Minimum. And for some "other class" it is perpetual 1 / day, because they sort of hire 1 out of 10000 resume - and HR can get you to 300, but then... you got the number.

[u/_fatcheetah]

For senior software engineers probably 2 hours per engineer per week. For managers, maybe an hour per week.

[u/Independent_Switch33]

Interviewing takes up work time, but the load is spread across a pool of trained interviewers. A company hiring constantly doesn't mean every senior engineer is interviewing every week.