Yeah, lots of the companies seem to operate like engineers aren't in high demand virtually everywhere and that they offer some kind of special je-ne-sais-quoi t

Yeah, lots of the companies seem to operate like engineers aren't in high demand virtually everywhere and that they offer some kind of special je-ne-sais-quoi that will convince qualified people to sit around for months while they make up their mind. I can say having been on the hiring-side of various companies for a while, most East Coast companies can go from looking at an application to hire inside a couple of weeks if they're slow, inside of a week if they're pretty well put together and can get enough people for interviews. It just simply doesn't take 5 interviews and two months to find somebody -- that's just ineptitude...and those companies' own internal metrics show all the process and hoops don't make much difference in final employee performance.