A phone screen, a tech screen, and a brief in-person interview is enough to hire someone. I'm torn on this. I just went through a long job search process.

A phone screen, a tech screen, and a brief in-person interview is enough to hire someone. I'm torn on this. I just went through a long job search process. Multistep interview processes are grueling and they impose a particular burden on folks who already have jobs, folks with anxiety disorders or other factors that make interviews even more grueling, etc. HOWEVER. The most valuable interviews of my career were those "extra" ones where I chatted with actual team members I'd be working alongside. I asked them about strengths and pain points of working at Company XYZ on a daily basis and got some great insights. Those kinds of interviews are the ones where you can find out if their build pipeline sucks, get a sense of the level of technical debt they're carrying, etc. Absolutely priceless in my decision process. I feel confident about the company I selected vs. feeling like I'm just rolling the dice.