In the software industry interviewing people is an extremely time and labor intensive activity. I just finished interviewing at a company that required a 2 hou

In the software industry interviewing people is an extremely time and labor intensive activity. I just finished interviewing at a company that required a 2 hour coding test before I could even talk to a human, that was followed by 6 separate 1 hour+ technical interviews, with 5 different people, before offer stage. Recent stats where I work now (which is far less stringent than the above): 200 applicants, 34 made it past screener, 2 offers. That's a 1% success rate and a 17x interview time investment (excluding screener calls, which are 100s of hours, potentially).