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I'm sorry, but if a prospective employer is asking me to do seven rounds of interviews, I'm going to take that as a giant red flag that they a.) don't respect me or my time and b.) are woefully incompetent at every other aspect of their business.
The giant red flag is the name "PayPal".
I did three interviews once with a company. Even shadowed someone. Never doing that again. It's a complete waste of time.
It needs to be illegal for employers to waste too much of our time.
This goes for interviews, commutes, and other situations where an employee is expected to give up their free time for free.
Thie idea that we owe parts of our lives and self that were never agreed upon when signing the contract needs to go away. The puritan work ethic needs to go away.
And we will need unions to accomplish this.
If they had to pay people for interviews they'd probably be a lot snappier about the process.
Like, sure, I'll do nine hours of interviews if you're paying me $100/hr.
I'm glad I don't work a job where they give tasks as part of interviews. I'd want to invoice them for my work if they did.
Best job I had so far gave me an offer after a single interview, worst one (current) took three, I recently quit after getting another single interview offer, I'm optimistic.
This was actually pretty normal for the last couple of tech jobs. Screening call with recruiter, phone screen with hiring manager, then a full-day on-site or zoom with 3-6 rounds. Sometimes, they would ask for a presentation about past work before the on-site. The number of rounds isn't indicative of anything in big tech. Smaller companies do fewer and can't afford to be as picky.
The problem is that after you've signed the offer and given your notice, you're going on faith that the new company offer isn't going to fall off. I've heard it happen a few times, usually when new company puts on a full hiring freeze.
It sucks, and the only way to mitigate it is to be talking to multiple companies when you decide to make a move.
I jumped through hoops like that once. Six or seven interviews with everyone from HR to one of the company founders, had to submit a freaking essay, only to be low-balled by the salary at the end; I ended up declining the offer. Biggest waste of time.
Yeah. I have been in a poition doing the hiring for over 10 years now and so far never ever needed more than three contacts with a possible employee. (Beide administrative things, like finding a dafe for an interview,etc.)
First contact Is via phone(or mail or a combination of both)if I find anything in the application that leaves questions open or is inconsistent.
Second contact is the actual interview. Nowadays m company is so small that we can do them "with the team", back in an earlier job that was not possible - so part three was either an long interview with the team or (preferably but not always possible) a day working with the team. (Whicu is of course payed at the same rate everyone gets)
But in my country we have to reimburse peoples travel costs and "trial tasks" during interviews would need to be payed as well.