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  • Good points. However, I'd be careful about too many interviews. Both the candidate's and your time is valuable (particularly if the candidate is currently employed elsewhere). In my experience more and more interviews have diminishing returns, so I'd limit to one or two interviews. An (additional) phone interview might also be a compromise. Commented Jan 5, 2012 at 8:43
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    @sleske, I agree in principal, particularly if the same people attend all of the interviews. It's better therefore to share the burden to find the best fit for both company and team, and gives you a chance to learn from the observations of others. Bad interviews won't go further, but the more stakeholders with an interest in the candidate the more interviews you may need, so it's not unusual to have 3 or even 4 interviews in very broad teams. Too many more though would give an impression of being terribly disorganized. It also pays to tell the candidate about the number of interviews up front. Commented Jan 5, 2012 at 10:14
  • @s-robins interesting opinions, only want to put some ligth about some aspects of my question. Due to a reason out of our control we cannot select our candidates based on a normal Recruiting process, instead the candidates only comes and we need to say if him/her has the correct skills/knowlegde to take the job. Maybe in a normal recruiting processes these things don't happen too often. but in our position we need to deal with this situation. Commented Jan 5, 2012 at 14:33
  • @Rafael, If I understand you comments correctly, you're saying that you get fed candidates from "somewhere else" to evaluate and that your difficulty is in making an objective assessment of a candidate without prior knowledge about that candidate. This sounds more like a systemic problem within the organization where you work. I would suggest meeting with the people who send candidates your way, and work with them to devise a system for filtering out the obviously inappropriate candidates before you interview them. Perhaps even request that a more formal application process be implemented. Commented Jan 6, 2012 at 5:14
  • @s-robins you understood well ... Commented Jan 6, 2012 at 13:54