Why knowing the interview structure matters?
An interview is a bidirectional process, ideally. However, most of the time, companies spend as much time as they consider necessary questioning candidates while giving a few-minutes-long opportunity for a candidate to find out more about the company or the culture or a team the candidate might be working with. I believe this is unfair. This approach may also introduce problems in the future after the candidate has become an employee. Very often people become disappointed in the company they joined. Normally, it takes 4-6 months for people to realise how is everything organised. Then the motivation and the excitement of a new job deteriorate. I assume, we have all been there. It often happens that a company gets “sold” to a candidate as an “innovative and disruptive business”, but in reality the only “innovation” there is an idea that top management sells to investors. ...