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[quote=Anonymous]Hmmm. I guess I'm confused as to what companies are spending time and resources to check references before it is clear a job offer will be made/accepted. Small companies I guess, who don't do much hiring.

I work for one of those huge companies (couple hundred thousand employees around the world, around 70K or so in the US) and just because of our sheer size, we get tons of applications for most jobs we post. If we spent resources checking on every candidate that made it to the interview stage, I can't imagine how many millions of dollars that would be every year.

So no, this is not common practice.

It also surprises me because companies are damn risk adverse nowadays - there are all these weird rules to avoid getting sued if you don't hire someone a job. So even if this is perfectly legal, I imagine it would piss people off to lead to lawsuits. Companies spend a ton of money settling lawsuits that are completely frivolous, so I'm surprised for that reason, again even if it is totally legal, they would risk that.[/quote]

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