- Brandon Southern is a senior leader at Amazon and former head of analytics at eBay and GameStop.
- He writes that its a terrible idea for companies to have employees interview their future managers.
- Southern writes that employees have a conflict of interest.
As a senior leader at Amazon and a tech veteran for 20 years, I’ve been involved with hundreds of interviews across several companies. When a new management position is opened within a company, there’s one interview practice that has never made any sense to me — having direct reports interview their future manager.
I’ve never used this practice as an interviewer, but as a candidate, I’ve experienced this in approximately 25% of the leadership roles that I’ve interviewed for throughout my career. While I’ve received offers from companies that use this practice, I think it’s a terrible idea and companies should think twice before using it.
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