Ask HN: Why companies don't pay candidates for showing up at their interview?

阿新 • • 發佈：2018-12-28

Interviewing is very painful and time consuming for candidates, plus, companies spend a lot of money for that. Why companies don't pay candidates for showing up at their interview?

Potential outcome: Companies would attract more "talents" by filling up their pipelines with a lot more qualified folks (assuming they'd still decide whether or not you're worth bringing on site). Something like $1000 per onsite and big companies could literally 10x that for very special candidates. On the other hand, I could actually make money by showing up and taking a day off work while going through the most painful step of our profession.

What do you guys think? Could almost turn into a full time job for certain people :)

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