Finding good people to work with is hard. Nothing you do will find 100% of the good people (finding 50% of them is extremely good) and filter out 100% of the ba

Finding good people to work with is hard. Nothing you do will find 100% of the good people (finding 50% of them is extremely good) and filter out 100% of the bad people. Nothing you do will be effective for everyone. Trying to develop a hiring strategy based on what you want interviews or hiring processes to be like will be biased. Accept that you will make mistakes. Accept that many of the good ones will get away or be undiscovered. Accept that you will make hiring mistakes and have to fix those. If you are interviewing, do you really want to spend a few years of your life at a place that does the bare minimum to vet you? They do that for everyone and guess what kind of coworkers you are going to get. Sure taking PTO and spending a day in an interview process is a lot of time. What is the alternative? Not really being vetted and working with horrible people. Finding the person or the right company to work with it hard. Take the time to be comfortable that it can work for both sides.