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[–] jobes 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

I work at a fortune 100 tech company and no, there are not quotas. I'll have time where I'll interview 6 people in a week and then times where I don't interview anyone for a few months because they're just aren't people qualified, interested or willing to fill the roles at the locations. Interviewing someone almost always require airfare, hotel and ~2.5 hours of 6 highly paid engineers or managers time (prep work, interview, leaving detailed feedback, debrief meeting). If recruiting brings in a highly unqualified candidate for a role, we complain loudly for the time and cost waste. Usually those people are filtered out in a phone screen, but recruiting events and blitzs can have some rough edges.

On the flip side, yes I've seen recruiters get fired for having low performance in the number of people they bring in while at former companies. Maybe some recruiters are given quotas at some places, but it's fucking expensive to interview someone.

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[–] marky1991 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Yeah, it my company's HR did this, we would all be very upset and would just end the interview after 15 minutes. It is much worse to waste all of the interviewers' time than to not have anyone to interview.

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[–] jobes 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

We don't have the luxury of ending an interview early. Interviewers are not allowed to discuss their session with another interviewer. The detailed feedback is logged and required in order to use as a defense in case the interviewee sues.

That's right. Some people make a shit load of money off of suing companies for claiming they weren't given a fair chance at interviewing for the job, or that they were discriminated against while interviewing.