Also just being liked by the interviewer. For my current job I had an interview of about 90min, and basically just had a rather one-sided chat with the two guys. They seemed to like me, just let me talk and the next day I had the contract draft in my email.

I certainly did not excel at anything during the interview.

[–] radiohead37@lemmynsfw.com 31 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I came here to say that. Who you know makes the other two criteria become irrelevant.

At my work they openly mention that 80% of their hires are from referrals. And I’m not talking about a little unknown company. They have more than 10,000 employees. I’m one of the 20%.

However, I only got my first job because I knew a VP at that company.

[–] macgyver@federation.red 6 points 17 hours ago

Same

[–] pastel_de_airfryer@lemmy.eco.br 9 points 16 hours ago

So true! Out of the five jobs I got over my career, three were from referrals.