I don't how your last question relates to a resume length though. I had a candidate with referral, 28 years experience and a impressive resume. All my colleague

I don't how your last question relates to a resume length though. I had a candidate with referral, 28 years experience and a impressive resume. All my colleagues were intimidated to ask him coding questions and he tried to weasel away from that but I insisted he do a quick C linked-list insert question and he said he didn't know much about pointers either. And things started falling apart from there. Some of these people are very good at deflecting questions and guiding the conversation so you know nothing about them in the end except what is in their stellar resumes.