The ideal process is having one that actually exists. Most startups basically try to wing this without any definition of how they want the interview process to

The ideal process is having one that actually exists. Most startups basically try to wing this without any definition of how they want the interview process to work. IMHO this is about 50% of the problem. On the flip side, large companies appear to be overburdened by process (anecdote example - I've heard from several people that getting into Google takes 6 months on average, along with the notorious b-tree whiteboard process). That being said, I think Aline Lerner[0] and Triplebyte[1] have some good ideas on the topic: [0] - http://blog.interviewing.io/ http://blog.interviewing.io/ [1] - https://triplebyte.com/blog https://triplebyte.com/blog I don't think implementing either one of their services is a silver bullet, but are likely n% better than what most companies are doing.