Weird job application correlation

[Bosh]

Since I'm working freelance these days. I send out a lot of job interviews and one thing I notice is that the crappier the job the more complicated the interview process.

For example the job I have that I like the most (small classes, high pay, often the first student stumbles in hungover 1/3 of the way through the class so I get paid to pay civ on my laptop for a while most days...) just asked for a resume and did one interview and then sent me to the corporate office to teach and the only time I've heard from them since is when they send me my pay.

Then the company that only offered 2/3 as much hourly despite wanting the same qualifications had a big five page thingie for me to fill out and a BS follow-up interview after the first one. I've noticed the same pattern again and again, the only jobs that ask me for anything except a resume as always the ones that are paying below the standard market rate. For a while I thought that the bigger companies were both paying less and being more bureaucratic, but then I got a temporary gig directly from Samsung which was a sweet job while it lasted and they didn't have me jump through any hoops at all.

Have other people had the same experience with other jobs? Seems pretty counter-intuitive...

[-Jrabbit]

The bigger the organization, the more likely it is that HR will be a "process" -- mainly to justify the existence of the HR Dept., and specifically, the VP. It's another area that's rife with MBAs who need to show "measurables" as evidence of success. Even after hiring, there's likely to be a prescribed education series that has less to do with one's actual job than with HR's need to "add value." Thus all the hoops to jump through.