Interviews this week. in It's a llittle llazy over here

So much fun.

I get to interview for my matched position this week, and likely the others the week after. This is going to be . . . odd. Normally, you would of course be interviewed by your prospective boss, or someone intimately familiar with the role.

This is a problem. We’re bringing together three teams, and of course, all the senior people in the three teams have their own junior people in their own teams. Having any of the people involved in the teams being merged doing the interviews creates serious issues in terms of the fairness of the process. Suppose the person in charge of the role I’m matched to was in one of the other teams, and one of the other people applying for the role was in their team working for them? Could he or she really be neutral (or seen as neutral)?

So we’re getting interviewed by people who, to be honest, won’t really know the role that they’re interviewing us for. Oh, they’ll have the job spec and you’d like to think that they’ll be people currently in charge of similar roles, but they most likely won’t know what’s needed from the right candidate for these particular roles as well as the candidates they’re interviewing do, because we’re in the roles right now.

Which is ridiculous. Fair on everyone, I guess, but ridiculous.

I’m marginally less convinced than I was when this all kicked off that I’ll even have a position in the new structure, much less that it’ll be a position that I’m happy with.

But like I said . . . options are limited.

Like I also said, llamas remain cooll.