To be fair, whatever time you prepare for this specific company is useful preparation for your current job search cycle anyways. My job search cycle is once ev

To be fair, whatever time you prepare for this specific company is useful preparation for your current job search cycle anyways. My job search cycle is once every 2-4 years. Within each cycle, I've always found my later interviews go much smoother than the early ones, due to incremental preparations adding up to much smoother execution. The first new interviews are always rough, after a long hiatus. I generally look at those as warm-up interviews... So it's not necessarily a net-zero reward, for the story portrayed by the author.