If those are important concerns for you, just ask about their hiring / scheduling policies up front, before you invest too much time into them. But also, try a

If those are important concerns for you, just ask about their hiring / scheduling policies up front, before you invest too much time into them. But also, try a few technical interviews. You might find they're not so bad, if you have the right background. I've been on both sides of the table in technical interviews, and on the hiring side I was working with an ex-Googler and our process was heavily influenced by Google practices. All the interviews I've done, on both sides, have been concerned with technical communication and the ability to develop a workable solution with a few hints, not with regurgitation of specific algorithms.