> I've heard of people at big companies who conduct thousands of interviews a year
I don't disagree with the rest of your thesis, but this seems off by an order of magnitude. They would have to conduct 4 interviews every working day to reach even 1000 interviews. Counting the time needed to write feedback for every interview, that person would be a full-time interviewer who occasionally writes software/does product management/project management.
Unless you're speaking of a small group of people who conduct disproportionately more interviews than everyone else (Pareto distribution) - a dozen interviewers could easily rack up 1000 interviews between them.
> I don't disagree with the rest of your thesis, but this seems off by an order of magnitude. They would have to conduct 4 interviews every working day to reach even 1000 interviews. Counting the time needed to write feedback for every interview, that person would be a full-time interviewer who occasionally writes software/does product management/project management.
I admit it's hearsay, but yes, I've heard that some people supposedly conduct 1,000+ interviews.
To be fair, I'm sure some of those are the online "solve this coding puzzle in 30 minutes" type that can be watched later at 3x speed and don't require human interaction. I don't know the ratio, maybe the power interviewers are heavily sandbagging with those.
I don't disagree with the rest of your thesis, but this seems off by an order of magnitude. They would have to conduct 4 interviews every working day to reach even 1000 interviews. Counting the time needed to write feedback for every interview, that person would be a full-time interviewer who occasionally writes software/does product management/project management.
Unless you're speaking of a small group of people who conduct disproportionately more interviews than everyone else (Pareto distribution) - a dozen interviewers could easily rack up 1000 interviews between them.