Your question is one of the main metrics I use to filter out companies I'm not interested in following up with. Is the interview process relevant to the actual

Your question is one of the main metrics I use to filter out companies I'm not interested in following up with. Is the interview process relevant to the actual job I would be doing? If no, it's unlikely to be an environment I'd be interested to work in. This signalling goes both ways and I think it's a bit of a weird balance that tends to somehow work out for both sides. People who don't mind jumping through bureaucracy hoops won't mind interviews that are completely unrelated to their job as much as the other half, companies that are like that will in turn be happy to find those people. There is of course the smaller subset of companies that would be interesting to work at but still have a bad interview process, but I would say they're a minority.