I’ve interviewed with Google twice. It’s not that many separate rounds: You have the recruiter sell Google to you, then there are two phone screens, then it’s

I’ve interviewed with Google twice. It’s not that many separate rounds: You have the recruiter sell Google to you, then there are two phone screens, then it’s the all day interview (with multiple people). Which is reasonable. I didn’t get the Google job, but, looking back, my life is better because I didn’t relocate back to Silicon Valley to work for Google. I’ve never had a company string me along. Four separate phone screens or interviews seems to be the limit. I’ve even been hired after one video conference interview. I once was given a “we want to hire you, but we need to get the funds together before we can give you the offer” spiel during the great post-mortgage economic recession, but they did hire me after about a month. After five separate rounds (again, talking to multiple teams on the same day after one or two technical phone screens and one recruiter call doesn’t count; that’s standard practice with many companies), I would tell a company they need to either, as my father put it, “shit or get off the pot”. In terms of take home assignments, I have no problem doing them, as long as the employer has no problem having me put my answers on a public GitHub repo. I will not do Codility tests, because my experience is that employers who do those kinds of tests are Unicorn hunters.