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Discussion on: How many interviews do you take per week or per day or per month?

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José Aponte

Yes and No. Please, let me explain! For obvious reasons, HR people cannot help you. The company needs your technical knowledge for these interviews. Now, let me focus on one important thing:

IT IS normal for a software engineer to take interviews. It is NOT normal to have too many interviews per week. Nevertheless, that doesn't mean it's unreasonable, as your company is facing a resource shortage. Having a technical interview is one of those tasks that you will have to do eventually. Unfortunately, it is not a job itself. Example: HR people like recruiters have more responsibilities than just interviews.

Finally, If you consider you cannot handle the task for whatever reason (Maybe investing 4 hours a week on technical interviews is impacting bad on your main job), talk to your boss and see what can be done.

Best of luck!