I broadly agree with you, but let me nitpick a bit, because nothing suits HN like a pedantic quest for truth. 8 hours vs 5 minutes is a bit extreme, for a star

I broadly agree with you, but let me nitpick a bit, because nothing suits HN like a pedantic quest for truth. 8 hours vs 5 minutes is a bit extreme, for a start. Secondly, the time a hiring manager needs to spend reviewing resumes includes unsuccessful candidates as well - so it's not 5 minutes, its 5 minutes * |all_the_vaguely_plausible_candidates|. There might be 20 or 30 resumes in the pile for some of these jobs. SO the manager might be 100-150 minutes in, in order to get to that 1 person who needs a "8 hour interview" (or whatever that is; I suppose places that fly you somewhere might be burning 48 hours or more - I know people in Australia who have been flown to the US for job interviews!). If you live in town it might be more like 2-4 hours. So the ratio isn't quite as extreme as you make it out to be for the manager, even if it seems unfair to count time spent reviewing all the other candidates' resumes/githubs.