A few 15-30 min Zoom calls a month seem like a ton of time investment. It's one thing if it truly is 15-30 min, but typically one would prepare a bit for interv

A few 15-30 min Zoom calls a month seem like a ton of time investment. It's one thing if it truly is 15-30 min, but typically one would prepare a bit for interviews. Tech work, reading up on the company, etc. As you mentioned below you're in infosec so maybe it's less; for SWE there is the tech/code prep and then there's also purely the handling of the stress of answering tech interview questions. Not to mention many even want a take-home code exercise done which can take 2-3 hours. (You could argue that you wouldn't even interview at those companies casually unless you're really committed) Honestly, the amount of work to do for even one interview is so much that if I'm happy at my job, I don't even want to do one a year. Of course it's a different story if you're unhappy though, I'd be interviewing regularly too in that case.