alt Hacker NewsWell, bullshit actually. When I went to Sun in 1996, I was flown out for a full day of interviews (9 hours!) plus both lunch and dinner. (And this was true for more or less every company I interviewed with.)
I'm not sure why people are indexing so hard on the interviews, as we matriculate very few candidates into conversations; if you want to complain about something, complain about the written nature of our hiring process.[0]
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in Sun's defense, that was in the 1990s, before the invention of the telephone.
btw congrats on the company. i was skeptical at the time but it was never because you wouldn't attract awesome talent and make great hires. your process looks great to me.
I think people are just generally grousing about Interview length, not about your company specifically. Don't worry about it. It's not aimed directly at you.
I know in my case, it's not about you directly.
Thank you for caring about us.
Yes, I definitely had some full day interviews back then, including travel time.
The largest difference I have found between then and now is what the interview actually consists of, not how long they last.