Tech Interview Processes

If we're talking about a one phonecall + one in person session with different teams, lasting 2, 3 hours max, sure. If you expect me to take time off work 4, 5, 6 times and get inteviewed for several hours each time, you're either paying me for the lost time, or I'm not going through the process the moment i find out the length.

Interesting bit about the 18 interviews. While your company sounds like something really cool, I'd probably not go through all those interviews unless a) they're brief and we move through them quickly (like, in Regarding c) - 18 interviews, each taking at least 30 minutes (screening would be 15 on average but other would make up fo

I'm not sure what kind of job you prefer but startups can sometimes speed the interviewing process up. If you can easily get interviews with companies, you can be frank that 6 or 5 hours of interviews for an onsite is too much.

A 5 hour interview process, is "a lot of effort"?

You're correct. And if a company wants me to spend 10-20 hours and 5 rounds interviewing with them, I will probably not do it. They'll be fine without me, sure. But they're the ones looking for talent, and they know the risk of putting so many hoops for candidates to jump through.

7 months to go through interviewing is outrageous, no?

The company isn't going to drag someone through 4 separate interviews if they're not serious about hiring.One of the reasons it's staggered is so the company or the candidate can end it early if it's not a good fit. Less time wasted this way.Frankly, I'm kind of shocked by the resistance HN has to spending a couple hours interviewing with a company. You're going to spend several years of your life working with this company. Is it really a dealbreaker if they a

Many selective companies have many phone screens and coding projects, plus hours of on site interviewing. Google's process notoriously takes months. Some companies interviews likely take 10+ hours all in all. That's more like 3rd date territory in terms of hours spent together, and plenty of time to evaluate a hire, not some one shot thing.

I conduct interviews with candidates almost every other day.Believe me, interviewing is a huge cost for the company and nobody wants to organize interview to "fish" for the candidates.We have screening process to remove candidates that don't have chance passing next stage so that we can spend more time with candidates that pass screening.It is really difficult to figure out if you want to work with somebody after 1.5-2h discussion.For 2 hour interview I must fit follow

Our process 'weeds out' candidates as soon as we know that its not a good fit. This in reality saves the candidate ( who may be interviewing at other places as well as working like you mentioned ) as well as our time. The 7 hour number keeps coming up, and seems like a lot, but very few candidates actually spend that much time. And, most of those are actually hired.We've tried conversations as well, but unfortunately, it is very difficult to objectively measure them into what w