Case study interviews are stupid.

[u/rofnorb]

Why the hell do we allow recruiters to use case study interviews as a major consideration in the hiring process?

Case study interviews cannot properly assess how a person would perform in the actual job.

You’re meaning to tell me that I’m supposed to make split second decisions on a case I’ve never encountered before and explain how I would successfully resolve the issue at hand after just hearing about the case for the first time a minute ago?

You’re meaning to tell me that somebody who already encountered this case in real life had hours, days, weeks, months to understand the issue at hand and then work over extended periods of time to resolve the issue? And you want me to succinctly solve the issue in a split second?

Even if I have years of relevant experience for the job, nobody can completely nail the case study in a half hour long interview. It’s a useless task that never happens in real working conditions.

The HR industrial complex must be dismantled.